Who were they? The obvious one I can think of would be Ewan McColl, trying to limit people to only singing songs from their ethnic/class background. But he was in a minority with that opinion, and his Critics Group crashed and burned because of this unworkable restriction.

For a more coherent and truthful dicussion of this see Peggy's letter here.

It has also been discussed ad nauseam here.....thread.cfm?threadid=92754

The point about Donnegan and Dylan is that they inspired working class people to take an interest in expressing themselves through folksong.

I would just love to see the research (rather than anecdotes) that accompanies this assertion.

I happen to think the issues of both class and of singing deserve much better treatment than such sweeping and impossible-to-prove statements.