From: AM@highwire.net
"Lane Gray, Czar Castic" wrote in message
news:opss5qlgsy8955ol@stylgar...
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:33:09 -0600, AM wrote:
>
>> "Lane Gray, Czar Castic" wrote in message
>> news:opss4uifli8955ol@stylgar...
>>
>>> Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, bunky. So how
>>> 'bout providing some evidence of a link between bluegrass and lynching,
>>> or the lynch mob?
>>
>> The legacy of racially (and musically) motivated lynchings in traditional
>> bluegrass country is so well-documented as to require no further
>> elaboration from me.
>>
> Yes, but those who performed those lynchings were in the minority (and
> presumably a smaller minority than those making the music. Ergo, you *do*
> require some documentation: you claim we're following the music of those
> who performed the lynchings?
> Prove William Smith Monroe or his family, or; Lester Flatt or his family,
> or; Earl Scruggs or his family, or; Jimmie Rodgers or his family, or;
> Ralph Stanley or his family, or; the Carter Family or its family were part
> of lynching parties.
> Hell, I won't even ask for proof, I'll settle for credible claims.
> After all, like I'd said before, most of the bluegrass catalog doesn't
> date back to the antebellum days.
> That's one brush you can't tar the genre with and retain credibility.
While the particular musicians named may have been too busy "makin' bacon,"
if you know what I mean (as I know that you do), their performances at the
local grange halls served merely as a diversionary tactic to hold the
attention of the community while their inbred cousins did the dirty work.
AM
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