The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #121085   Message #2642025
Posted By: Richard Bridge
27-May-09 - 01:36 PM
Thread Name: Are 'Folk Arts' Elitist?
Subject: RE: Are 'Folk Arts' Elitist?
Nonsense SoP. What I said cannot possibly be bucolic for there is no relevant referent. As Lloyd sought to demonstrate, there can be industrial folk-stuff too. You deprive the word of any meaning, but why should that surprise me.

Glueman, I have I think figured out that whatever it is you are against it, but is there anything (apart from long trotting among obstacles) that you approve or agree with? And why are you having this discussion if you think that anything that people do since people are folk, is a folk-thing? It would follow from that that folk arts were not elitist, for they would be universal. I say that folk arts are not universal, but are still not elitist. Are you reminded of any other parts of Gulliver's Tales?