If the average britfolkie is a computer programmer

what's the average Hungarian/Iberian folkie....
cattle rustler? hedge-fund manager?

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> If the average britfolkie is a computer programmer
> 
> what's the average Hungarian/Iberian folkie....
> cattle rustler? hedge-fund manager?

I think it was a Croatian who once said to me "this is the kind
of music you find social workers singing everywhere in the world".
(He was just back from Latin America).

Thinking back to the Hungarian folk music/dance camps I've been
to: occupations I can remember are graphic designer, architect,
foreign language instructor, tractor mechanic, single parent,
divorcee living off alimony, speech therapist, teachers of various
sorts.  Sessions I go to around Edinburgh have more working-class
occupations represented but are otherwise similar.

Jazz was once described as dentists' music, meaning that they
had a fair bit of disposable income and a social position that
made them inclined to spend it as consumers of minority-interest
musical genres.

You want to look up Bourdieu on this sort of thing.

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"Jack Campin - bogus address"  wrote in message 
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>> If the average britfolkie is a computer programmer
>>
>> what's the average Hungarian/Iberian folkie....
>> cattle rustler? hedge-fund manager?
>
> I think it was a Croatian who once said to me "this is the kind
> of music you find social workers singing everywhere in the world".

folk music as therapy for the middle classes

there's a thought

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"Jack Campin - bogus address"  wrote in message 
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>
> Jazz was once described as dentists' music, meaning that they
> had a fair bit of disposable income and a social position that
> made them inclined to spend it as consumers of minority-interest
> musical genres.
>
My other half's Latin American jazz band seems to be evenly split between 
doctors and art college people (although several of the artists have now 
moved on). Other Half himself, of course, as Jack knows, is a musical 
instrument repairer. So no dentists there!

And the vast majority of the dancers in Belfagan are teachers, with health 
workers coming a close second.

What does it all mean? Nothing, probably.

ally

Gill Smith wrote:
> If the average britfolkie is a computer programmer
> 

Or a teacher...

My experience these days is that they're mainly people who've taken 
early retirement and are doing something more interesting while living 
on a fat government paid pension...

-- 
William Black

"Any number under six"

The answer given by Englishman Richard Peeke when asked by the Duke of 
Medina Sidonia how many Spanish sword and buckler men he could beat 
single handed with a quarterstaff.

At 10:47:34 on Sun, 13 Sep 2009, William Black 
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>Gill Smith wrote:
>> If the average britfolkie is a computer programmer
>
>Or a teacher...

Most often, in my experience, librarians...
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