Hi there "Guest". Just out of curiousity what was the name of the song that was sung at your folk club from the"folk revival era"?

Just to add to the list above, we could also usefully ask: Who? Who was influenced and what were the consequences!

Freda's note above highlights for me the fact that the tradition as a whole has influenced Australians at many levels and in many different contexts. I have no problem with that at all. Where it becomes harder to quantify is when we try to assess the impact of a particular song on society at large as opposed to just observing how it affects us personally. This is especially so if we dont have some agreement on the meaning of the term "Influential".

If the lovely "Guest Dominique" isnt willing to provide some structure for her own research question then what we are left with are a range of diverse and interesting perspectives on the topic but we are no further along the road to understanding anything about the issue of what songs were or are influential especially in the context of the alleged "Living Democracy section of the soon to be opened Museum of Democracy in Canberra". About which still nothing can be googled!
Cheers,

Andrez