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Thread #122108   Message #2674609
Posted By: Phil Edwards
08-Jul-09 - 08:10 AM
Thread Name: Is folk music folk music?
Subject: RE: Is folk music folk music?
A presentational mode that hints of a generalised agrarian past

Hear hear! I've seen many a singaround ruined, ruined I tell you, by presentational modes hinting of a generalised agrarian past. Everyone thinks they're Walter Gabriel - even the women. If it's not Oi've just bin singin this one to the sheep it's Zorry oi be late, oi 'ad to fettle the zoider press - and you know damn well that they've just got in from a hard day's chartered accountancy. Inveterate poseurs, they city folk be. (Oops, sorry - it's catching.)