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Thread #140737   Message #3236826
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
10-Oct-11 - 01:17 PM
Thread Name: Dale Farm Protest Song /Phien O'Phien "Hum Hum"
Subject: RE: Dale Farm Protest Song /Phien O'Phien "Hum Hum"
If four of you are using the same computer and you're all guests the best way to participate in a conversation (so we all know who we're talking to) is for each of you to adopt and consistently use your own monikers, such as your name "Red John."

I don't remember seeing the post you mentioned, I may not have gotten to it if threads moved around. Here is a cut and paste of the review in question from the site linked above:

Phien O'Phien is a long time activist on behalf of the Irish traveller community. He has for some time been writing folk songs about the experience of Irish travellers, Hum Hum Hum being one of them.

Often the 'traditional' is ignored in activism, even dismissed as 'nationalist' or whatever. However it is important for people to preserve their culture from the attacks of the imperialism which makes everything homogenous like the TV. This sort of folk music has not exactly died out in the UK, but much of it has become stale imitation - what makes Phien O'Phien so unique is that he is writing original lyrics about his people and their survival. He has been at Dale Farm since the beginning of Camp Constant, and is working together with the other activists to resist eviction by Constance and Co.


The context (provenance) of the song is an important part of the discussion. But the mud slinging that happens with political discourse isn't needed when recording information about the song.

SRS