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From: John O'L - PM
Date: 13 Jul 06 - 03:08 AM
It seems to me that for some reason oppressors are rarely as musical as those they oppress.
Perhaps they are muscial, in a different way. Perhaps being an oppressor doesn't lend itself to song as readily as being an oppressee.
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Bit late perhaps to add a gloss on this 4+ year old post; & its point has perhaps been to an extent gainsaid by many of the posts that follow it, esp the indefatigable, and valuable, work of the tireless SharonA.

But it might be work quoting here, in general terms, Bert Lloyd's cogent dictum that "People have always sung best when they had least to sing about".

~M~