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Thread #173119   Message #4198144
Posted By: GUEST,Phil d'Conch
27-Feb-24 - 03:58 PM
Thread Name: Folk Music and politics
Subject: RE: Folk Music and politics
Jim: This guitar kills fascists' was Woody Guthrie's view on the relationship between music and politics- that's what today's repressive politicians are afraid of....

Steve: Excellent, Jim!

"We have met the enemy, and he is us"

During the Battles of France and Britain? Nah! The very day Operation Barbarossa launched, Woody & The Almanacs' Stalinist sponsors were still celebrating their Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with the facists. They went from isolationist to jingoist on that one day. Politics will do that to the arts every time.

If the politics match your own, you are not the repressive ones and there is nothing to fear... until there is.