Originally Posted by Frownland

Do you think I've been talking about Americana? Folk is an ambiguous term that isn't inherently tied to a certain sound. That's why I pointed to hip hop as folk in the modern American tradition, and it's how I can extend that concept to punk music as well. Folk music will always exist as the music of the people, even if it sounds nothing like traditional American folk music.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.