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Thread #139751   Message #3240170
Posted By: Richard Bridge
17-Oct-11 - 08:39 AM
Thread Name: Folk - a target for comedians
Subject: RE: Folk - a target for comedians
Sweeney, how come you have not grasped that the fact that a music is consumed by the proletariat does not make it folk music? Are the strange capitalisations and malapropisms in your post intended to betoken anything and if so what?

What you seem to wish to be doing is to encourage the working class to abandon their historical cultural roots, which is in turn to disenfranchise them and leave them prey to consumerism - a thing that IMHO we have already seen and which appears to tend to get worse (aggravated by the Bozos of the world who conflate wealth with class).

What you are doing, on a political level, is a parallel to the activities of the unknowing morons who mock folk arts of any type, and the consequence is that the working class are deprived of their roots.

Why on earth is civil unrest "a requisite of the privileges enjoyed by a civilised elite"? Your wording makes no sense.

Mind you, tangoed Essex girls in white stilettos performing a ritual mating display dance around their hambags (sic) - now that IS funny.