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Thread #141147   Message #3247887
Posted By: Richard Bridge
31-Oct-11 - 04:31 PM
Thread Name: 'Occupy English Folk Music!'
Subject: RE: 'Occupy English Folk Music!'
You are of course right Dick.

But Lizzie won't have it (in either sense of the words).   If she thinks it "sounds folkie" then it must be folk music. If she says sex can only be justified by love then it must be so. Regrettably she is so far from saying anything rational here or elsewhere in her views about folk music or folk-alike music that she deserves nothing other than being totally ignored on those topics, which I propose now to try to do.

FAF have never (as far as I now) made any judgement about what is or what is not folk music. Indeed most of the bands/performers I hear play in support of it are not "folk" as such at all. FAF was simply an opposition to racist fascistic movements seeking to occupy folk music (in the sense of largely traditional music) simply because it was white and English. It was a symbol, for them, of their racial identity. And that it is not.