The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #121025   Message #2841749
Posted By: glueman
17-Feb-10 - 06:44 AM
Thread Name: In Praise of Traddies!
Subject: RE: In Praise of Traddies!
The 54 definition is built on a set of terms which were assumed to be permanent. For better or worse descriptions like community have altered, probably irretrievably. The definition has no currency outside the revisionist format of the folk club, and sporadically then.

The changed nature of community has rendered the definition obsolete unless 'folk' and 'tradition' have further qualifiers. Within the world of the club it makes sense, like the scores in croquet or dungeons and dragons or the ascent through freemasonry but those inside over-estimate its thrall when applied to modern definitions of the same terms in the outside world.