The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #128206   Message #2870981
Posted By: Jim Carroll
24-Mar-10 - 04:10 PM
Thread Name: What is the future of folk music?
Subject: RE: What is the future of folk music?
PS - Guildford - Maguire songs - not specifically as far as I'm aware but plenty from the Troubles, from within the NI communities (on both sides) and from sympathisers from afar.
The miners strike didn't appear to produce many from the mining communities as far as I am aware, apart from sloganising parodies, but plenty fom sympathetic outsiders.
Whether they have passed into any tradition depends on what happened to them at a later date - bit difficult with the miners after Thatcher scorched-earthed the industry.
Jim Carroll