English Folk Music

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    “The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “In the past, the English tried to impose a system wherever they went. They destroyed the nation’s culture and one of the by- products of their systemisation was that they destroyed their own folk culture.”
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    “La la la, Oh music swims back to me
    and I can feel the tune they played
    the night they left me
    in this private institution on a hill.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)