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Thread #132798 Message #3010103
Posted By: Phil Edwards
18-Oct-10 - 05:31 PM
Thread Name: No, really -- what IS NOT folk music?
Subject: RE: No, really -- what IS NOT folk music?
I know nothing about Chris Bearman, but I've read his two papers on Harker & Sharp and can't see much wrong with them. To my mind he goes wrong on Left politics - he seems to think there's such a thing as The Marxist Interpretation, and that the fact that Dave Harker is in the SWP axiomatically means he has nothing useful to say about Sharp. But what he says about Harker's (mis-)reading of Sharp strikes me as valid & useful.