This blog turns once again to folk singer Jon Boden. His fifteen minute essay for Radio 3 connects a pile of influences we share (though perhaps never spoke about as schoolfriends), kicking off with the post-apocalyptic teen sci-fi literature of John Christopher, Peter Dickinson and others, to a current point of recontact – the Dark Mountain philosophy and their Uncivilisation festival.
Here’s the essay, it travels an absolutely fantastic way in 15 minutes and his conclusion about ‘folk culture’ being resilient enough to outlive the civilisation collapse is spot on:
Listen HERE (BBC online, possibly UK only, sorry!)
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