The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #140761   Message #4057506
Posted By: Steve Shaw
05-Jun-20 - 01:08 PM
Thread Name: Are racist, but traditional, songs OK?
Subject: RE: Are racist, but traditional, songs OK?
Alleluia, Maggie. Not only that, the attempts to broaden the discussion in those directions in a music thread threaten to delude us into thinking that our little folk bubble is more important to the outside world than it is. As I said, the worst that can happen is discontented rumblings in folk clubs and singarounds that probably wouldn't happen anyway because we know how to police ourselves. We don't exactly take our dodgily-worded folk songs out on the streets to rouse the masses to violence...