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Thread #121238 Message #2646537
Posted By: theleveller
02-Jun-09 - 11:36 AM
Thread Name: English Folk - Peasants to Professors
Subject: RE: English Folk - Peasants to Professors
"I have a problem being told that I should get on and read those books...go into the history of it all, over and again,"
Lizzie, I'm genuinely confused here. Who is telling you to do this? People have sometimes suggested to me that I might be interested in finding out more about the folk songs I love and I've been more than happy to follow this up as research of this sort is something I find ejoyable and interesting. No-one has ever told me that I can't enjoy the music without doing this research.
I don't think it's helpful to create artificial antagonisms by suggesting there are two extremes of peasants and professors. Neither of these exists in reality and, even if they did, there would be more common ground than antithesis. The head and the heart cannot exist in isolation.