I may be asked shortly to give a 30-40 talk/lecture on folk music ...... where do you start.
I had thought of breaking it down starting with traditional and songs/history of music of farming, mining, seafaring but wondered what other areas have their own collection of songs. I envisage leaving more up to date folk music to another occasion as it would be impossible to cover it in 30 minutes.
As a start I thought I would ask you good people for imput

Cheers

Raggytash