Sunday, June 1, 2008

Conservative folk music

You might remember that old Kids in the Hall routine about "Career ending moments in show business". The first of these moments involve a promising young film star who inadvertently includes Hitler in her list of people she wants to thank while accepting an Oscar, while the second involves an earnest young folk group singing a ballad in praise of "Senator Joe". Of course, there were conservatives who liked the folk music form. One of these people was Janet Greene. There doesn't seem to be a Wikipedia article about her, but I think she actually exists nevertheless. Although the first title shown on this page is "Fascist Threat", most of the songs are about the communist threat. She's billed as the "Anti-Baez", and while her message is pretty straight-up propaganda, I have to concede that she's actually a pretty good singer. She actually sounds a lot like her nemesis in a lot of the songs (these can be heard on an embedded player on the site). And she does have a way with words, even if I don't particularly like what she's doing with them. The whole page is worth reading actually, particularly the interview with her (she's actually not the one-dimensional person you'd expect).

Thanks to N. Beltov in this babble thread for the link.

ETA: the link to the babble thread is dead, though the link to Conelrad's page on Greene is happily still there.

2 comments:

Ixion said...

Another crypto-fascist clown in the vein of Bob Roberts.

Ixion said...

Except Greene's real, of course.