JIM,Nowhere in my posts have I said Peter Kennedy was a traditional singer,you owe me an apology.
I talked about dubbing on of material to existing traditional recordings,this was a reference to a post by Fred Mcormick[thread reflections Peter Kennedy ]   ,18 sep 06,where he said Kennedy issued recordings of traditional singers Phoebe Smith and Joe Heaney with Unauthorised Dubbing..
on a video about AlanLomax, Peggy Seeger says [probably my most upsetting experiences,with him was when he was showing his work on Cantimetrics to the american folklore society in Philadelphia.
He gave an impassioned talk and they [the academics]tore him to ribbons,because he made some sweeping generalisations you could make exceptions to,.
he was devastated because this was where he wanted to be,he wanted his work validated by the experts].
to quote Pete Seeger.I asked my nephew an ethno musicologist at the Smithsonian institute,why is it that not everybody agrees with Alan,he replied well he makes leaps of intuition that he cant prove.
PeteSeeger said I would trust Alans intuiton rather than someone elses proof.
so he may have been an academic but he was devastsated by their traetment of him.
eveybody is entitled to their preferences music wise,and you may prefer traditional singers to revival singers,personally I would rather listen to Tony Rose than to Gordon Hall, Charlie Stringer,Ted Chaplin,.http://www.dickmiles.com Jim youcanvisit this for free,and hear my singing.