The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #148467   Message #3853242
Posted By: Jeri
01-May-17 - 09:51 AM
Thread Name: Sexual identity & trad folk music
Subject: RE: Sexual identity & trad folk music
Which is why, in Anglo-American and perhaps other English speaking people, the possible queerness is going to be of a "nudge-nudge, wink-wink" style. It's going to be deniable. It's going to be "oh, THAT song? I was just imagining how I'd feel if I were a woman" or "yes, I DID sing that love song about a man, but it was because it's a great song and there weren't any women singing it." Might be true, might not be, and it doesn't matter to the song.