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Thread #112597 Message #2389590
Posted By: glueman
15-Jul-08 - 10:27 AM
Thread Name: Does it matter what music is called?
Subject: RE: Does it matter what music is called?
"about communities and societies where people can, by and large, answer Yes to all four"
I know of no historical record that pertains to those conclusions. There were certainly work songs, there was leisure and community singing but the image you portray is of a background of continual music making. I'd like to see evidence that past music was more prolific AND community centred AND constant in all of pre-Edwardian Britain.