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Thread #128242   Message #2881007
Posted By: *#1 PEASANT*
06-Apr-10 - 07:19 PM
Thread Name: BS: Seeger Smothers Party- Left=right?
Subject: RE: BS: Seeger Smothers Party- Left=right?
If you read this thread more closely you will find that
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A song is not a Socratic dialogue. I have given concerts where I presented an anti-union song with a pro-union song. I also have presented songs representing both sides of the American Civil War.
==frank
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Is just the sort of proposal that many opposing my statements suggest is taboo. That is singing any song that they do not agree with.
I suggest that on the level of art a song is a song. Unless people believe that singing a song that one does not agree with is some sort of curse or prayer that will cause people to get up and do violence....

Yes folk music is expanding but not as fast as it should generally because it has been branded and also age set defined through commercial marketing.

Conrad