Oete did interesting things with an African lullaby and turned it into a picture book about a giant. (and I don't mean win-o-weh.) I love it, but what have been referred to as the Folk Nazis wouldn't.

reminds me of that old monologue about folk music being "of the people" but "the people" don't go hear it because it's too arty. (Midnite Special listeners will know the one I mean. Can't remember the narrator.)

technically, if you are not from the tradition of the song, it isn't authentic, but that knocks most of us out.

What WOULD my roots be as a postwar baby boomer parents-moved-away-from-extended-families Scots-Welsh-French American??

-- MA