{"id":22312,"date":"2014-10-27T18:52:29","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T18:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=22312"},"modified":"2014-10-27T18:52:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T18:52:29","slug":"vox-pop-should-morris-dancers-still-be-allowed-to-wear-black-face-paint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2014\/10\/27\/vox-pop-should-morris-dancers-still-be-allowed-to-wear-black-face-paint\/","title":{"rendered":"Voxpop: Should morris dancers wear black face paint?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22353\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 426px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/10\/upton-2007b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22353  \" alt=\"upton-2007b\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/10\/upton-2007b-426x312.jpg\" width=\"426\" height=\"312\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22353  \" alt=\"upton-2007b\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/10\/upton-2007b-426x312.jpg\" width=\"426\" height=\"312\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Carreg Las have changed the traditional border costume and use black and white face paint.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cardiff\u2019s folk dancers are shocked at the Twitter frenzy caused by David Cameron\u2019s photo with blacked up morris dancers.<\/p>\n<p>The photo caused a stir on Twitter on October 12, while the prime minister and Foxs Border Morris were branded as racist by British media.<\/p>\n<p>However, on 29 November Cardiff\u2019s folk dance community are welcoming to the city Cardigan&#8217;s Carreg Las morris and other border sides who will be dancing around the Cardiff Bay area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sally Davies, 54, a local cotswold morris dancer, said:\u00a0\u201cThe anti-racist campaigners have demonstrated a knee-jerk reaction to a non-racist, ancient tradition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlacking up originated from the 16<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0century, when out of work farm labourers illegally begged for money during the winter, covering their faces in soot to avoid recognition. Should blacking up be allowed? Yes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div id=\"attachment_22402\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 427px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/10\/Cardiff-Morris-resize.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22402 \" alt=\"Cardiff Morris resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/10\/Cardiff-Morris-resize-427x312.jpg\" width=\"427\" height=\"312\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22402 \" alt=\"Cardiff Morris resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/10\/Cardiff-Morris-resize-427x312.jpg\" width=\"427\" height=\"312\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Unlike border morris dancers, cotswold morris dancers use hankies and the tradition does not see face paint used.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V0PczuIVz-Q[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>Carreg Las performing in Abercych\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Lutq7hL0Vic[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>Cardiff Morris performing in Llanharan\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>PLEASE NOTE: The views expressed above are those of individual folk dancers and are not a statement on behalf of Cardiff Morris, Carreg Las or other folk sides or organisations in Cardiff.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiff&#8217;s folk dancers voice concerns about misunderstood border morris tradition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":22858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3857,3858,3859,3860,1777,3861,3862,3863,639],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-22312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-no-logo","tag-banbury-folk-festival","tag-blacking-up","tag-cardiff-morris","tag-carreg-las","tag-david-cameron","tag-fox-morris","tag-morris-dancers","tag-traditonal","tag-vox-pop"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Voxpop: Should morris dancers wear black face paint? 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