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Thread #95367 Message #1854017
Posted By: The Borchester Echo
09-Oct-06 - 09:19 AM
Thread Name: fRoots magazine
Subject: RE: fRoots magazine
A swift glance back at fR covers over the past six months reveals that six of them feature those making music from 'out there in England'. All but one are firmly what you might call (if you must) white anglo-saxon:
Tim Van Eyken The Devil's Interval Gloworms/Seth/Lakeman/18th Day Of May/Lou Rhodes Kate Rusby Bellowhead
The sixth, Susheela Rahman, is making music widespread in England today but rooted largely in her own tradition. Is that what some people are really objecting to?
fR policy is to promote musics of both indigenous and immigrant communities, musics made by current writers if they are rooted in a tradition but not to give space to music that has no sense of roots, place or community because there are plenty of other publications focussing on that. It is clearly stated in the FAQ:
fR does what it says on the tin. No-one forces anyone to buy and read it. But those who don't are likely to have a very distorted picture of what has actually been going on musically for the past 26 years.