"agenda driven left-wing propagandist" "mythologised the struggle of the working class"
Bang goes Harry Cox from the traditional list - you should have heard him talk about about the transportations and the enclosures when he sang Van Dieman's Land.
As for Harry's "that's the way they treated us" when he sang Betsy the Serving Maid.... doesn't bear thinking about!
Walter Pardon often spoke with pride of his family's connection with George Edwards' re-establishing the Agricultural Workers Union - shame on him
I think Sub believes that the question should include "and who didn't hold any political views if they didn't coincide with my own".
And the way Irish Travellers mythologised their history - "making the nails for Christ's hands" and "descended from Irish kings"
Surely it's about time we judged people's contribution to tradititional music by their - well - contribution to traditional music, without putting them through a witch-hunt - Lomax, Lloyd, Seeger (Pete and Peggy), Guthrie.... all would fall at Subs first fence.
Jim Carroll