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Thread #169250 Message #4091813
Posted By: Thompson
06-Feb-21 - 01:35 PM
Thread Name: Are all folk musicians political?
Subject: RE: Are all folk musicians political?
Sure, folk music is political. By definition, it's the music of the people, and it reflects the concerns of the political. For example:
This one, Thompson?
O Antonis or "Andonis" is the second song of "The Mauthausen Trilogy", also called "The Ballad of Mauthausen", a cycle of four arias with lyrics based on poems written by Greek poet Iakovos Kambanellis, a Mauthausen concentration camp survivor. (O Antonis)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3qMCU6mpS0
Looks like the current settings of Mudcat are very intolerant of anything but the "Standard Character Set."
-Joe Offer-