The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #128012 Message #2865841
Posted By: glueman
17-Mar-10 - 05:16 AM
Thread Name: What defines a traditional song?
Subject: RE: What defines a traditional song?
JC I appreciate I'm completely wasting my time countering your put-downs with logic, but you were the one who said 'anger and despair'. Individual anger at societal changes is understandable, one only had to see rows of medieval buildings being replaced by ring roads in the 1960s to notice that not all innovation was for the better but if the people who originate a culture don't care about its loss we can do little but record it and remove it to a culture that does mind. While noting it has nothing to do with the adopting culture except novelty.
'The insidious nature of the marketing machine' forces no-one to do anything. That's just a romantic appraisal of evolution. I don't watch TV or take a newspaper and my radio listening goes no further than Radio 3 plus a couple of hours of listen again, so conspicuous media consumption isn't something I can be accused of. 'Snide' seems to be any answer you don't like the sound of.