The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #121919 Message #2691030
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
31-Jul-09 - 09:53 AM
Thread Name: Motley Morris banned !
Subject: RE: Motley Morris banned !
I don't like it, so you shoudn't do it;
Not true actually. Aesthetically, and instinctively, I find it quite appealing, as I have done since seeing the picture of a blacked-up John Kirkpatrick in his Bedlam garb that appears on page 223 of the 1982 paperback edition of Janet and Colin Bord's Earth Rites. I love Morris Dancing, Mumming, Ritual Garb, Masks, Guising and related Misrule, Mayhem, Merriment and all Manner of Folkoric Fiddle-Faddle Stuff, and I might even allow for non-racist reasons (even traditional ones) for blacked-up Morris Dancing (etc.) as I'm sure were touched upon on the Folklore: Blacking up for morris - origin? thread.