Steve
I confess I haven't heard Peter Bond, though I seem to remember Paeggy's New City Songster carried one of his songs
Immaterial anyway
How can I get across toy you that folk song is a defined form of worker's culture, not something you like or dislike into existence.
MacColl's songs aren't 'Folk' - he spent his life telling people they weren't
He wrote some of the finest songs using folk forms - I would guess I have about twenty of them in my repertoire?
The term 'folk' isn't something you hand out like the Oscars or you win at Come Dancing - it is a process a song has to pass through before it becomes what it is
It doesn't even have to be good - some folk songs are crap
A definition can only "fail" is it cannot be applied to anything - nothing to do with the merit of what it is defining
Thia is ****** insane.
You don't like the definition because it doesn't cover the things you like - I hate prunes - it doesn't stop making them prunes, or make their definition a failure
Still no comment on workers culture - that says everything that needs to be said for me
Jim Carroll