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Thread #144410 Message #3339955
Posted By: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
18-Apr-12 - 08:24 AM
Thread Name: Living 'Tradition' Standard Bearers?
Subject: RE: Living 'Tradition' Standard Bearers?
all of whom you have rubbished at one time or another
I'm not rubbishing anyone, just being realistic that's all. I know exactly what we owe to these people, but I'm also interested in their wider humanity too which God knows isn't flawless. The cultural / class issues are complex and far from clear cut - how can you expect them to possibly be otherwise? As for Ewan's songs, they don't interest me in the slightest, but that's as much by way of personal preference as it is by way of being suspicious of the efforts & pet causes of Priviledged Lefty Luvvies to put words into the mouths of the working class. The working-class have always had a musical voice, they still have, just one the Folkies weren't too interested in listening to because it didn't fit into their antiquarian agenda.
I might go back to the musical members of the communities I grew up with in the South-East Northumberland & Durham Coal fields, none of whom were dealing in anything anyone here would call Folk, but were highly valued for their talents in the field of truly Popular Music and Song. The same is as true today as it was then.