First responsibility - maybe. Only responsibility - absolutely not. We also have a duty to pass on what came after the oral tradition because that too is part of our musical heritage. The last thing we must do is to repeat the mistakes of the past.
I make no apology for re-quoting Roy Palmer:
"What one generation spurns, another seeks out and lovingly preserves"
I often hear the word 'dross' banded about these pages as though it were strictly a modern phenomenon....