Class only seems to be irrelevant to you because you have overtly and for your own interests changed it's name to UPSCALE instead of upper class. If you call a turd "merde" -- we all know what it truly is.

Wake up and smell the reality of it.

Here, in the USA, Lower class is and always has been a heinous reality to all of us who have had to descend into it's grip in order to have absolutely necessary medications and procedures paid for by a horrendously mutated public health-care system.

You are correct in saying that folk music is a way of recording history. My life in folk music has been devoted to that fact since I began doing it 50 years back.

I, for one, am totally sick of fighting the system that cannot see, and remedy, what Capitalist upscale upper class interests have done to create and maintain the lower class.

Art Thieme