[TheForge] "Put an end to annoying road trip songs." WAY OT

[Mike Linn]

try this...  http://www.folkways.si.edu/index.html associated with the 
Smithsonian

mike



At 08:34 AM 9/14/2004, you wrote:
>A Radio Shack ad just came up on a website I was using:  "Put an end to
>annoying road trip songs.  Run your favorite home electronics from your
>vehicle.  DC-to-AC power inverter.  Get it now at RadioShack."
>
>  Wow!  What a sad commentary.
>
>And here I'm reading "Lark Rise to Candleford" in which the author,
>Flora Thompson, noted how (English) country folk made their own music
>and sang for themselves, even while embracing the new music coming in
>(1880's & 1890's).  She noted the loss of some of the older songs as
>older people passed away.
>
>Nowadays we're gonna displace what culture we have left with canned
>"culture."  (At least in the mainstream.)
>
>The French want to restrict importation of US media into France so that
>they can maintain significant French programming.  My sympathies are
>with them.
>
>Fortunately, there ARE Americans who are preserving our musical
>heritage.  Country Dance and Song Society (Boston) for one.
>
>(Rant over.)
>
>Bruce
>NJ
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