Please answer without reference to Ewan MacColl or Peggy Seeger."Therer you go telling me what I can and can't say again Jim
And you describe MacColl as a domineering bully!!
I know what I know - not everything, but obviously more than you, otherwise, why should you make such a stupid statement - through putting the time in and taking an interest in the subject
I never created no-go (academic) barriers from my research
I discovered quite early that, if I had any confusion about what constituted folkk-song, I only hd to ask people like Walter otr Mikeen or Mary DElaney - they didn't aal use the same vocabulary, but they could sort out one type of music from another just by listening to it.
Failing that, I could pull down a book off our shelves and read what those who came before us thought about it.
Does it not strike you ludicrous to accuse someone you never knew (MacColl) of being a bully and an all round unpleasant individual while at the same time taking every opportunity to malign and smear him thirty years after his death
If MacColl had acted in one fraction of the vicious way his detractors (you included) do he would have desrved all the abuse he still gets
As it happens, he didn't, but you and yours do
Work out for yourself who the unpleasant bully is
Jim Carroll