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Thread #88522   Message #1666898
Posted By: greg stephens
11-Feb-06 - 07:29 PM
Thread Name: BBC 4 folk program
Subject: RE: BBC 4 folk program
I find the series very interesting as far as it goes. Plenty of nostalgic interest. But obviously it is media biassed, and interested in record sales. So we get a programe which gives a lot of attention to say Steeleye Span, or Donovan, or jounalistic peeps at Nick Drake. But no looks at the continuos unbroken quiet stream of the music in theatre, in carnival, in film, in hundreds of bands playing for dances, for weddings, in pubs, in a string of festivals(not just folk, in fact especially not folk festivals): music, basically, embedded in society as it has always been. And music. surprisingly, not only of little interest to journalists, but of little interest to most "folkies" either. I think there is a more interesting series to make which would cover what Henry Ayrton, a great folk broadcaster, called "the parallel worlds of folk".