The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #121085   Message #3032495
Posted By: GUEST,Steamin' Willie
15-Nov-10 - 05:49 AM
Thread Name: Are 'Folk Arts' Elitist?
Subject: RE: Are 'Folk Arts' Elitist?
Excellent Fido!

You make my point perfectly.

As you say, I define words. As you say, I am "better off than yow." As you say, I am the master and you the servant.

Actually, you aren't.

I prefer my servants to be literate, sensible and had their chip surgically removed as their shoulder is better served helping make me richer and them poorer.

I'm an uber something or other too eh? Humpty Dumpty had a good point in that quote you have given. I call something folk and it is just that. At least in my opinion. You call something folk and it whatever you want it to be. if enough people turn up in a pub on a Friday night and sit graciously giving polite applause to a person singing a song, then that is lots of peoples' opinion of folk. See, a pattern is emerging?

Elitist is something I, like many don't hold much truck with. That's why Steamin' Willie has to prick the bubble of pomposity. the real me is far too unassuming.... In fact the real me indulges self styled elitist idiots (to their face at any rate.) Then goes home of an evening and thinks "What a tosser."

Sorry everybody else, some pillocks like to bring their bullying of anybody who isn't an armchair revolutionary away from the BS threads and onto the music ones.   You can't disagree with fantasy Utopia merchants without them trolling you around other threads. A pity, but there you go. Just wait for Dick the Shit to join in and we will have gone full circle.