Thanks for making the blue clicky, Ross. Lisa, a very good article, and I loved learning so much more about your own experiences with the music interwoven with your own life. What really strikes me, as I read through it, and I will read through several times again, I'm sure - is the tension - the dialectic - I personally experience regarding folk music as performance/history/preservation/(you get my drift) vs the role or function of music in the lives of people that is not about being musician, a performer, a folklorist, an historian, etc. Has made my brain hurt for many years, trying to sort out my own thoughts and emotions about such things.

I didn't get to hear this entire broadcast, but what I did hear touches on my own thoughts, internal conflicts, and awareness of the dialectics involved. Don Pedi interview on the State of Things

What you have written is an important contribution. Thanks.