The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #119490   Message #2630766
Posted By: Richard Bridge
13-May-09 - 08:57 AM
Thread Name: What makes it a Folk Song?
Subject: RE: What makes it a Folk Song?
Although it is not so convenient to trace the posts of a guest in chronological order as those of a member, it can be done.

I see that Glueman apparently arrived somewhat aggressively to defend Rachel Unthank, but did not start to get really forceful replies until he aligned himself with the OP's thrust on the "Our ghastly folk music" thread.

Since then the vast preponderance of his posts seem to have been to assert that there is no such thing as folk music, or that there is no value in distinguishing it from other kinds of music.

I have not found the specific posts, posts hostile to him, that he seems to complain about yet, although it is fair (and unsurprising) to say that he does indeed seem to have rubbed people up the wrong way from fairly early on. I am not so sure that this demonstrates the greater fault in us, though.