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Sue Allan	What makes a new song a folk song? (1710* d)	RE: What makes a new song a folk song?	12 Sep 14
My god, what a lot of got air generated by you guys! I tend to agree with what Howard and Steve G are saying, but for me by far the best in-depth and no-nonsense discussions of what constitute 'folk song'' are in Steve Roud's introductions to both 'The New Penguin Book of English Folk Song' and 'Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America'. Read those and then resume your argument. And before anyone says they're prohibitively expensive - there are free public libraries, and if necessary inter-library loans at very little cost.

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