Jim,perhaps you would answer my question anyway,who do you think Mccoll Parker and Seegers intended audience, were for the Radio Ballads.,and what do you think their purpose was in doing this production,do you think that they were only intending to broadcast to folk revivalists,or were they [as Ithink] aiming at a larger audience The general public aka the Folk.
These radio ballads although the creation of revivalists,in at least two instances,featured traditional singers Sam Larner [singing the fishing]and Belle and Sheila Stewart,Joe Heaney,Elisabeth and Jane Stewart[the travelling people]they were traditional singers,singing and talking about their lives,they were the ordinary folk,[ not revivalists although these are not some seperate breed],and I believe their intended audience was Joe Public as well as those already interested in Folk Music.
Sam larner, The Stewarts ,Joe Heaney are the folk,They are not artists scientists,and those characterised by this discipline[who you claimed earlier were the folk].
Finally you mentioned earlier I quote[Walter Pardon Family tradition died out sometime between the wars and his magnificent repertoire was the result of his own efforts in painstakingly reconstructing them].So he wasnt a traditional singer,any more than Bob Blake was?, did he or did he not learn his songs orally,or did he only learn some of them?,
However he made a conscious effort to revive them,that makes him also a revivalist.
It of course doesnt affect his singing ability,any more than it did BobBlakes[another excellent singer],It just shows how ludicrous this terminology revivalist and traditional singer is.