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GUEST,Brian Peters | Folklore: Is folk song really political? (103* d) | RE: Folklore: Is folk song really political? | 06 Oct 07 |
A very interesting question, and I'm right with Les and button in their responses. As a singer who cut his teeth in Manchester-area folk clubs, I'd grown up with the idea that industrial broadsides of the kind that my hero Harry Boardman used to perform were the very stuff of local folk culture, but over the years I've had to ask the question how many of them were ever sung popularly or "entered the tradition". I'm still hoping.... |