Jean Ritchie, The Mother Of Folk

Jean Ritchie, The Mother of Folk

she gets it

in theory, i love wikipedia as a large opensource encyclopedia of information free and available for everyone.

in practice I hate it because how dare you say this song was first recorded in 1930 when it was first recorded in 1910 and how dare you say the first american version of the song was from the 60s when it was from the 30s and most of the links to your citations don't work anymore. they frequently confuse folk songs with other folk songs with completely different origins and list them together. they r usually wrong about when something is first printed or even who it was written by, when it was recorded, etc.

i understand I'm being a bit unreasonable, but most easily accessible things online just copy and paste from wikipedia, and for SUCH a niche topic of the history of american folk songs i just see the same misinformation being repeated over and over.

i know i said this before, but it's still upsetting.

"What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist — the right to life as the rich woman has the right to life, and the sun and music and art. You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also. The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too.”

quote by Rose Schneiderman 1912

terfs fuck off

made in 2022

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There's folk music, meaning "a wistful, guitar-centric style employed by one of the most famous and successful musicians on the planet," and then there's folk music, meaning "eclectic singer-songwriters with proudly leftist political views" and then there's folk music, meaning "a British woman in the 1960s has the weirdest voice you've ever heard and employs it in singing Child ballads without accompaniment," and no one has any way of differentiating which one of these they mean without extensive explanation