has anyone making profound pronouncements on this thread actually taken the time to look at the curriculum of the Newcastle course? There's a loty of I really hope they're studying the tradition..."

Answer: they are. That's why there are tutors like Chris Coe on the course: to give them some grounding in the sources for the music.

Many of the gainsayers could do worse than reading the article about the degree in a recent issue of English Dance and Song magazine, or at least finding out a wee bit more about the course, before issuing their dire pronouncements on the graduates of the degree.


I stand by my earlier post. Yopu lot are beginning to sound like the Four Yorkshiremen in the Monty Python sketch...