'Roots' - a song for the English

[watervole]

I don't even like Steve Knightly, but this really is brilliant.

It's a song about national identity and the place that English traditional music should have as a part of that sense of being English.  What are we without our roots?

Comments

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

That was good. Thanks for the link.

[fjm.livejournal.com]

Chair-dancing! Yay!

[kerravonsen]

Oh yes!

One of the things that has troubled me for many many years is the lack of grass-roots singing in Western culture; singing is relegated to "professionals" or only in certain spaces (like Church). I hate that. All our cultures are the poorer for that.

Yes, the folk traditions haven't died out completely, but they're relegated to corners and mostly ignored and forgotten by the general public.

[temeres.livejournal.com]

I refuse to think of myself as English. British, maybe. European, even better. But not English.