The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #92329 Message #1772958
Posted By: GUEST
30-Jun-06 - 03:24 PM
Thread Name: Recordings of Gypsies
Subject: RE: Recordings of Gypsies
Jim Carroll wrote "do wish to keep travelling but are forced into houses by prejudice"
... but I dare say a lot of handloom weavers preferred spinning by the hearth of their rural cottages to life in the mechanised cotton mills - but times moved on and economics, not prejudice, influenced choices and lifestyles. Pickling a culture is never going to be an option; nor is doing what we want simply because we want to. Real life, and the burden placed on others who are providing involuntary subsidy, impinges.