>I take it you don't care for Broadside-type political folk? Pete
>Seeger, Peggy Seeger & Ewan MacColl, Phil Ochs, Malvina Reynolds,
>etc.?
Right. That stuff makes me want to scream. Strumming banjos around the campfire will be a capital offense after my revolution.
>Leek, I saw a fine off-Broadway (well, this being Chicago, off-State
>St.) production of Brecht's St. Joan of the Stockyards, almost
>enough to revive the old time religion in me. What's your take on
>Brecht, who has irony and wit, but is also deadly earnest about the
>Revolution?
As Jill Johnston used to say, you can be serious without being earnest. I like Brecht. But that combination of political seriousness with irony and wit is pretty rare.
Am I alone in finding most "political" art unbearable or nearly so?
Doug