victorian song collectors This link should show a short section of the book which has an interesting discussion on the problems of definitions of folk song. To me it demonstrates that academics are still struggling with the problem. I would be interested if anyone else has other references to this type of discussion it would surely be more enlightening than this present thread. john
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