The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #141147   Message #3251825
Posted By: Richard Bridge
07-Nov-11 - 04:15 AM
Thread Name: 'Occupy English Folk Music!'
Subject: RE: 'Occupy English Folk Music!'
C#Ho can invite who they like. As can any other club. You can't compel them to have what they don't want, and they can't and don't prevent you from having what you want. They don't want to invade you AFAIK. Why should you invade them?

Incidentally, I don't see why you call X factor contestants "protoplasm" - on one of those talent thingies a couple of years back there was a very short clip of two contestants singing just for fun as they walked down the street - no instruments, and dammit they were GOOD, once you took the razamatazz crap so central to the Tin Pan Alley aspects of the programme away.

Glueman - the expression "community" in the 1954 definition has to contemplate discrete communities, not a whole nation. Think about it. The question in modern times is whether a "community" needs to be physically contiguous, or can be connected in another way - as an online community is.