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Thread #92266 Message #1763101
Posted By: Lizzie Cornish
18-Jun-06 - 05:19 PM
Thread Name: BBC Radio 2 Boards And Music Racism
Subject: RE: BBC Radio 2 Boards And Music Racism
Trouble is this music is not being played in the media is it? It USED to be, but now...it's not.
And unless people go on general music boards and jump and down about that fact, all over the place, write in, write to papers etc. whatever it takes, things will never change!
Folk music is JUST music, same as any other genre. It has every right to be discussed openly on a BBC board which states quite clearly that it is for discussion of music that you love and have a passion for. I shouldn't be 'hounded' because I dare to go over there and talk about people they may never have heard of. WHAT is that all about?
Mudcat is a wonderful place, filled with some lovely people, but it's *only* known about in the folk world. Again..closed doors, fences etc....
This music is way too good to keep shut away.
You may be happy to see it lying in the media's gutter, but I'm not. I know of so many talented people and bands, who, perhaps years ago, would have been 'out there' yet now, they feel, to borrow some ideas from John Young and his band (prog rock) as if they are 'strangers in their own land'
It needs to change. (at least, in my opinion)