The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #23707   Message #265800
Posted By: Lena
27-Jul-00 - 12:29 PM
Thread Name: Sex and the folksinger
Subject: RE: Sex and the folksinger
That's fine.But the bagpipes are a bit too macho-like. I think that Mbo was just teasing,not attacking...let's trust.I'll keep the advise in mind.

It's interesting how you can find many 'immoral'folk ballads...a great number of them doesn't give a toss about sexual repression.It suggests that probably we got a big moment of'constriction 'after the Industrial Revolution.Really,people in folk music had a lot going on along riversides,behind bushes and during nightime... I can think about a few classics to quotate... Tam Lin is the first.The Cuckoo's Song(Our Goodman).Others don't come to my mind at three in the morning.