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Thread #132798   Message #3009995
Posted By: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
18-Oct-10 - 02:32 PM
Thread Name: No, really -- what IS NOT folk music?
Subject: RE: No, really -- what IS NOT folk music?
Yo Shim - go steady on the old Folk Fundamentalism there. Folk Fundamentalists are worse than the Folk Police because all the Folk Police do is enforce the civil law in the best interests of everyone. The Folk Fundamentalist, on the other hand, is willing to die for his righteous cause which is neither civil nor legal but based on the prophet Cecil Sharp being guided to discover the Golden Tablets by the angel Moroni -

Er - hold on a minute - I'm having that old Joseph Smith / Cecil Sharp thing again. It always happens when faced with the more Orthodox Elements of the Revival, replete (as it is) with Righteous Religiosity and a call for the burning of books (or the masterly demolition of them) & the dastardly heretics that dared write them.