I'd agree with Guest:Guest:

Imagine that, agreeing with a Guest. At least on the regional nature of folk music. Ironically, in this sophisticated age of electronics, folk music seems to remain in cultural "hollers." After running a concert series for 27 years in Connecticut, I hardly knew any of the West Coast performers. I knew the Midwest crowd more because they came East on tour fairly often, so Art Thieme, Dave Para and Cathy Barton, Jerry Rau and a few others became good friends. I don't know that it's that the music is radically different in each area. I think that it's economics that creates cultural Hollows. I would have liked to book more West Coast musicians but I couldn't pay enough to get them out to the East Coast, even with several other places booking them. Over the years, I performed fairly regularly in the Midwest as well as the East Coast but never even attempted to get a West Coast booking. I doubt that many people had even heard of me.

So, for a song to become an "anthem," it's going to take a long, long time. I also wonder about the term "anthem." I know that dictionary definitions carry absolutely no weight on Mudcat, but anthems are songs of praise. They can be religious anthems or Patriotic anthems. I don't think that Swimming To The Other Side quite fits the definition. Howzabout it becoming a weel-known, sung everywhere song? This Land Is Your Land has become that, and is more accurately called an anthem, because it is in praise of America.

I don't agree with Guest:Guest that this song is gender limited.

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