The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #144410 Message #3339012
Posted By: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
16-Apr-12 - 09:19 AM
Thread Name: Living 'Tradition' Standard Bearers?
Subject: RE: Living 'Tradition' Standard Bearers?
Could lose my way on this.
With pronouncements like such as McColl for his song writing and historical preservation of the Social history of working life through song I'd say you were already pretty lost. MacColl was a highly selective agenda driven left-wing propagandist who mythologised the struggle of the working class with as much ease as he mythologised his own life. If you accept simplistic romantic myth as Social History (which is so very often the Folk Way, alas) then Ewan's your man.
Otherwise, what exactly do you mean by Living Tradition Standard Bearer?