The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #155357   Message #3671213
Posted By: GUEST,pubkfolkrocker
22-Oct-14 - 07:33 AM
Thread Name: What makes a new song a folk song?
Subject: RE: What makes a new song a folk song?
"If you haven't got a "position" on folk song you should leave those of us who believe we have, get on on with it - you certainly shouldn't be attempting to bully people into position on what you appear to be admitting, you didn't have a position on"

Jim, Musk and me might not take exactly the same approach
to demonstrating our discomfort with other folk's ideas,attitudes, and behaviou.

But I do think we are similar in our view that fixed absolutist positions are not healthy
or conducive to any kind of reasonable productive debate....???

For me at least, intellectual 'doubt' is more to be valued than 'over-certainty'.....