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Thread #16949   Message #161814
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
12-Jan-00 - 05:18 PM
Thread Name: When does Folk = Not political music?
Subject: RE: When does Folk = Not political music?
I'm sure if you look around you'd find songs in the wake of the American Revolution where Native Americans were saying they got a better deal from the British than from the revolution. Which would have been true.

And that would be because it was a badly flawed revolution, which betrayed the principles on which it was supposed to be founded.

Most revolutions do that. That doesn't mean they don't have to happen. Every revolution needs another one to sort out the unfinished business. Most times that happens, the counter-revolutionaries try to get into the act.