Nice one, ABCD!
Jim,
Many thanks for the Harry Cox text. I don't think I've got that one. Is it on an accessible recording along with any others similar? The answer to your question has to be even today the use of the song would have to be severely mediated as it was then, to have any use to anyone other than a rugby team or a researcher into such material.

Brian, I thought we'd established that within our context the term was a somewhat vague umbrella term, that for more precise usage needed qualifying. Many other terms, 'folk' for instance, are wide ranging with multiple meanings and connotations, but it doesn't stop us using them. As I think I've established above there are many different types of mediation within our sphere of interest. It's a relatively simple job just to state which types of mediation we are referring to, and who is doing the mediating.