Hello Jag

The 'not mediated, not half!' exclamation referred to the way that it had been stated on this thread that WP produced precisely one piece from fragments using written texts. This, for me, was a piece of 'mediation'.

Sorry if this was not clear.

Also @ Jag. It seems to me that Walter and anybody else is entitled to do what they like with these old songs (barring I suppose where copyright may exist in some version for some reason). The idea that there is a 'right' way to sing them or 'right' interpretations or 'right' or 'wrong' ways to adapt their words has no force for me. If this is my culture, I think I should be able to do what I want with it, including critiquing it where I think it was racist/colonialist/sexist/and yes, even rubbish etc in the past.


I note that the missing section of part 3 of my post of 3.12 is now visible. I don't understand this. I am glad that it is now visible. Because I felt that it made a fair point about the way that posts about perfectly valid 'social science' methods can unfortunately be taken the wrong way. And have been.