Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry never for one minute thought they might be writing anything but Rock'nRoll . This hasn't had any effect on people with guitars all over the world sing their songs , any more than it has stopped those same people with guitars (AND without instruments) singing Victorian parlour ballads (The POP Music of THEIR Day ) . And is Shane McGowans Christmas in New York Folk or Pop ? The availability of recorded music via radio , CD , I Pod et al
means that the Oral tradition is now a very small part of the circuit for Song Transmission .