The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #119490 Message #2631820
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
14-May-09 - 01:19 PM
Thread Name: What makes it a Folk Song?
Subject: RE: What makes it a Folk Song?
Sop: You said: "The revival is heavy with contradiction, men with degrees and clean finger nails sing the painful plough,"
I didn't say that, Jim - Glueman said it, and I quoted it along with your response. That bit about the ploughman was me though; I've got a thing about the way these songs might tie in with the old methods of agriculture and how they might serve to remind even the Effete Social Worker of something long gone yet somehow fundamental to our well-being. But then again, I'm romantic like that and my bookshelves are stuffed with stuff by George Ewart Evans. I'm no ploughman though, nor yet Effete Social Worker, but I can dream with the best of them...