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Thread #142288   Message #3282633
Posted By: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
31-Dec-11 - 05:21 PM
Thread Name: Alternative Folk Awards
Subject: RE: Alternative Folk Awards
Antagonistic? Not a bit of it, BAW - just responding in kind really. And with you it's not so much ideas as ideology - heavy handed Folk Law that operates on the principle of if you say something often enough it becomes true). Not good - especially when the sort of thing you're proposing would be complete anathema to a left-field Dylan-hating post-revivalist traddy like me. And the most influence the BBC has ever had on my Folk Life (apart from The White Heather Club, natch) was back when I used to watch Bagpuss re-runs with my daughter in the early 80s, though I must admit to being inspired by the occasional adaptation of M R James (Jonathan Miller's Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You is especially cherished) or episode of Dr Who (The Daemons). Now ITV on the other hand - they gave us Children of the Stones - seminal Folk Horror that lingers yet; they even had Wyrd Morris Dancers in that...