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Thread #162666   Message #3883708
Posted By: Steve Gardham
21-Oct-17 - 10:47 AM
Thread Name: New Book: Folk Song in England
Subject: RE: New Book: Folk Song in England
I read the chapter and all of the book thoroughly and have already returned to the salient points several times having annotated the bits that were most relevant to my own studies. I have no quibble at all with any of the '54' descriptives and never have had. What I have always said is that 'folksong' has come to mean different things to different groups of people and denying that is burying one's head in the sand. I can deal with this as most words in the dictionary have a whole list of synonyms and I can't see why 'folksong' should be any different.