The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #34379   Message #468646
Posted By: dick greenhaus
23-May-01 - 11:05 AM
Thread Name: Preserve Politically Incorrect Songs???
Subject: RE: Preserve Politically Incorrect Songs???
When I first got innarested in folk music, Rudyard Kipling and Stephen Foster were no-nos. Whaling was fine, as was wife beating, if treated humorously. Sex was just beginning to be accepted (in song, that is).

Political sensibilities change. If you go through the process of losing everything that might be offensive today, you won't have much left tomorrow.