"Richard R. Hershberger" <rrhersh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> On Mar 13, 2:03 pm, bill van <bill...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> In article <Xns9A60640912C56moonblanchedgmail...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> Dover Beach <moon.blanc...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>> > We are the Folk Song Army.
>> > Everyone of us cares.
>> > We all hate poverty, war, and injustice,
>> > Unlike the rest of you squares.
>>
>> That's fine satire. It works very well on the 1960s and 70s folkies.
>> I think it's misplaced when applied to the Seegers and the Guthries.
>> Well, to the older Guthries.
>
> This is, I think, the source of this whackiness: the conflation of
> the time of Seeger and Woody Guthrie with that of Dylan and Arlo
> Guthrie and all the rest. The latter era saw the rise of the
> counterculture of carefully conformist nonconformism. Whatever one
> thinks of that era, it is unreasonable to project this backwards to
> the 1950s.
>
I disagree.
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Dover
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