"Subject: RE: Review: New book - Singing from the Floor
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Mar 14 - 08:34 AM

I rather think I named the leaders in my first post. Maybe Bellowhead are just in search of dosh, aren't we all, but it's not what I see from them and their peers as a wider pattern. The concept of The Imagined Village takes folk out of the clubs and into the wider world, not only of world music, but of music as a whole. There have been untold approaches from other forms as well of late, and you've dropped every ball which came your way, as far as I can see. It won't last forever, the music industry will soon come to the conclusion there's not a lot you can help them with. Sure I'm goading you, but you seem to need goading, or you'll miss the train. You have things to say, valid and interesting things, but they'll never be said if all you do is mumble in your beards. You've got to get out there and start saying them.

Of course the heart of folk is in the home, but only insofar as it's given scope in the home. How many of us have children who only know what Radio 1 and its ilk tells them is worth knowing, as if the X whoojit is all there is? This is exactly what the commercialisation of the music industry of the mid 1970s was intended to achieve, and it worked. It worked too well, in fact, it's a mine that's been worked out and they want fresh ideas. But hey, ho, none here, perhaps they'll find them from Bali or the Muslim world."
to paraphrase Martin Carthy, who is this berk?