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MacColl, Parker and Seeger
The Fight Game: The Radio Ballads Vol 7
$16.99
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The radio-ballad team turned its attention to professional boxing, 'in an attempt to escape from the huge canvas of industry and the intensely private world of the sick and the adolescent'. Thinking that the subject might lend itself to a more a light-hearted approach, they found that everyone involved insisted on comparing the ring to the world outside, and that boxers saw themselves as latter-day gladiators, forcing the team to re-think the objectives.
The result was The Fight Game, an ironic allegory, drawing on the epic, echoing the fact that boxing was once the theme of many broadside ballads. In Parker's note for the Radio Times of 3 July 1963, he remarked: "The bout itself provides an immediately dramatic form, which lends itself admirably to radio-ballad treatment, while its essential contradiction - man, impersonally, against man - meant that we could use irony as never before."
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