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Big Al Whittle	Is folk a dirty four-letter word? (276* d)	RE: Is folk a dirty four-letter word?	29 Dec 21
well (with all respect) - there you have your recipe for disaster and how you've whittled down membership of your gang. English literature went through a similar crisis at the end of the 19th/start of the 20th century. Poets were writing 'in the the tradition'. They called themselves neo -Georgians, pre Raphaelites etc - it all came down to the same thing -namely eschewing the voice of the 'folk'. Luckily we got a break and TS Eliot and others kicked us into the language of the 20th century.. Folk music is located with the 'folk' - just as the sky is located above us. Nothing the Pope or some committee of experts decree will change that.

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