There are some people who can be quite transformative and brilliant with a genre. Its a question of vision.
The late Bill Caddick wrote a wonderful song about a pig being hanged as a criminal in   medievaltimes.

Such a song - it wouldn't get anyone marching down the road, but my god! as a howl of protest at man's inhumanity, it worked.

Strange how a song - well an evening of song in - The Fitters Arms, Walsall   Barrie Robert's folk club - performed to half a dozen people can live on in your mind.