The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #121085 Message #2640301
Posted By: GUEST,Lord O'May
25-May-09 - 05:47 AM
Thread Name: Are 'Folk Arts' Elitist?
Subject: RE: Are 'Folk Arts' Elitist?
Okay - so that worked. So what's up with the Doc Rowe thread I wonder?
Meanwhile - whilst I'm here... What I should have said, CS was that no matter how seriously you take yourself, and the music, no one in the real world will ever take you seriously again simply because in the real world Folk Music is a complete & rightful irrelevance. Folkies (like railway modellers & battle re-enactors) take themselves very seriously indeed, which is why we have a folk scene, with singers both great and small, clubs, festivals, labels, websites, fora. As I said on the other thread, whilst that passion which keeps it afloat, it also appears decidedly bonkers from the outside where folk is seen, at best, as quaintly anachronistic hobbyism (which of course it is) rather than culture per se.