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Song and Democratic Culture was published in a binary, Cold-War world and triggered controversy. While some critics castigated its Marxist approach, others enthused that `such unabashed partisanship amply reveals the outstanding characteristic of Watson's book' (Janet Oppenheim, American Historical Review). Singer and musicologist Sam Richards praised it as `a polemical, even missionary book' (Folk Music Journal). Dick Gaughan championed the author's case for 'a consistent and workable aesthetic based on a class view of folk music'; and it was Gaughan and Billy Bragg who were motivated to rearrange and record `The Red Flag' with its original folk tune, to challenge Watson's hypothesis on labour and `dignified' chorus music (p.216).

Song and Democratic Culture was published in a binary, Cold-War world and triggered controversy. While some critics castigated its Marxist approach, others enthused that 'such unabashed partisanship amply reveals the outstanding characteristic of Watson's book' (Janet Oppenheim, American Historical Review). Singer and musicologist Sam Richards praised it as 'a polemical, even missionary book' (Folk Music Journal). Dick Gaughan championed the author's case for 'a consistent and workable aesthetic based on a class view of folk music'; and it was Gaughan and Billy Bragg who were motivated to rearrange and record 'The Red Flag' with its original folk tune, to challenge Watson's hypothesis on labour and 'dignified' chorus music (p.216).

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Ian Watson taught British and Irish Literature and Cultural History as well as Literary Writing at the University of Bremen, and still teaches writing in schools and in adult education. In 1994 he founded newleaf Press and newleaf magazine, which he still edits with Simon Makhali and Julia Boll. He is vice-chairman of the Virtual Literature House in Bremen.

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