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GUEST,Malcolm Douglas Oldest European Folk Song (112* d) RE: Oldest European Folk Song 19 Aug 02


You're looking for the wrong things, and using the wrong terms of reference. There is no question here of "missionaries" "stamping out" anybody's traditional song culture; that culture was oral and unrecorded in the first place; from the point of view of a literate person, there was nothing to suppress. The fact that monks (as a rule, the first literate people in Europe) failed to record it is completely irrelevant. Why would they bother, even if they were aware of its existence? I'd suggest you read up a bit on medieval history before getting too involved in uninformed theories.


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