The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #121085   Message #2640337
Posted By: GUEST,Shimrod
25-May-09 - 07:13 AM
Thread Name: Are 'Folk Arts' Elitist?
Subject: RE: Are 'Folk Arts' Elitist?
I have read the words, 'glueman', and I've been singing some of these songs for many years. Kindly explain to me how any of them are "anti-establishment", "utopian" (if even just "a touch") or "nationalistic". If it's too difficult to analyse them all in these (absurd) terms, let's just pick one: how can 'The Outlandish Knight' (any version you like - but I suppose the version in the 'Penguin Book of English Folk Songs' is easily accessible) be described as, 'anti-establishment', 'utopian' or 'nationalistic'?