While Lizzie can be infuriating, she is not always wrong. The Eliza Carthy thread for example was I think helpful to a number of people and pointed them to something they were happy to see. I did not and do not see the need for the spikiness pointed at LIzzie there. The Krusby thread itself is in a different position. Lizzie's posts there did get steadily more fanzine, but to some extent she was driven to it. What is not in order, it seems to me, regarding that thread is her winge about the attribution debate. Attribution is important. That is why for example modern authors have "moral rights" of attribution - the right to be identified as the author of a work. Also, given the nature of the difference between folk and other music, a scholar's deliberate falsification of his research is worthy of comment - and indeed the slipshod nature of modern documentary making deserved a baying mob.

On the other hand, this thread is based on a lie: that the "professors" have in some way stopped the "peasants" from participating in the peasants' heritage. They have not.




Unfortunately it is not always possible to avoid threads from people who annoy: the thread titles do not identify the OP until the thread has been opened.