In the evolution of folk song tradition performers and recording artists control the selection process. It is a mistake to assume that the listening public makes any selection at all. Everything is pre selected for them. That is why musicians who interject their own personal censorship based upon only one dimension of the music interfere with the entire process. Gaughan will not sing or record songs which he calls divisive. In doing so he has arbitrairly removed the choice from the people.

Conrad