Lyr Req: the travelling people by MacColl

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the travelling people by MacColl
From: GUEST,bari gadgie
Date: 29 Nov 04 - 06:38 PM

certainly I must agree with your point on Mc Coll making people aware of the culture, but he was well known to a generation of travelling people who he exploited for his own ends

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the travelling people by MacColl
From: akenaton
Date: 29 Nov 04 - 06:49 PM

I cant agree ,the telling of the story cant be called exploitation.

Im sure the travellers in general were not affected. By MacColls time the real travellers had been replaced by the modern version,who are just like the rest of us ...Ake

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the travelling people by MacColl
From: GUEST,bari gadgie
Date: 29 Nov 04 - 07:02 PM

While the story must be told the source should be respected and not exploited and with all due respect Akenaton, Jimmy Millar was an exploiter of the first order........

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the travelling people by MacColl
From: akenaton
Date: 29 Nov 04 - 07:29 PM

Given your definition ,"exploiter" could be applied to any writer .
We all exploit our subjects,even here on Mudcat.

Much as we may try to hide the ego, the old devil keeps poking up his head .

MacColl was no more guilty of exploitation than any other,and the benefits of his so called exploitation will be here when most of us are long forgotten...Ake