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Jack Campin Singer/players in the bardic tradition (8) RE: Singer/players in the bardic tradition 29 Aug 18

Look outside Anglo-America and there are plenty of examples of unbroken bardic traditions going back to the Middle Ages. The best known in the West are the griots of Mali, but the Alevi (Sufi-Shiite) "asik" singers of Turkey probably have the largest recorded repertoire.

The Anglo-Americans you named have nothing in common with any bardic tradition, and I don't think most of them would have claimed to.

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