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GUEST,jag Mediation and its definition in folk music (582* d) RE: Mediation and its definition in folk music 25 Feb 20


If you hadn't seen the film and only knew the tune from those videos, you'd have no earthly reason to play it.

So I guess such a tune wouldn't survive long in oral\aural transmission without whatever it was associated with. I wonder if there are 'tunes of little value' neglected by the collectors because they were after something 'to use' rather than recording, say, a ritual (or dance maybe) that they were associated with.

So a selective representation of the musical culture - which I think is one of Harker's points.




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