The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #122182   Message #2709692
Posted By: Jack Campin
27-Aug-09 - 06:26 AM
Thread Name: Does Folk Exist?
Subject: RE: Does Folk Exist?
I still haven't seen the clip (this computer can't do YouTube) but what you're describing is a not very competent performace in poor taste. That does not mean the people doing it had hegemonic ambitions.

There are lots of other examples of poor taste in revival performance. The first ones I'd be tempted to put up against the wall are Clancy-Brothers-style performers of Irish music who turned an art form of community celebration and solidarity into a a spectacle of barely sublimated macho thuggery, but really I'm quite content to leave it to history to gently cover them with feminizing veils of dust.