"abstract such as music"

The songs that were kept alive through the 18C and 19C by rural working people and the songs made and sung by industrial workers, later collected by the musically educated people like Sharp, McColl and Lloyd, are not abstract. They come from the context of the lives of the people who kept them alive because they liked singing them.

"will we see (and not before time) the resurrection of "do it yourself" music and the recognition of the continuity with the "do it yourself" music of our foreparents?"

Richard's question is timely and palced in an historical context.

I think

L in C