The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #110900   Message #2347125
Posted By: Ruth Archer
22-May-08 - 04:22 PM
Thread Name: Chords in Folk?
Subject: RE: Chords in Folk?
"I only mention my CV in my defence, when such terms as "fool" DS are used against me,"

And if you think a BA in humanities with a major in anthropology makes you an expert on folk song, and more qualified to pronounce on it than others here (which is most certainly what you have implied), you deserve the epithet of fool. There are people here with qualifications in ethnomusicology, for heaven's sake, who have studied English folk song extensively.

In any case, and regardless of your qualifications, many of your assertions are highly suspect from an academic point of view. When you did your degree, did you not have to prove some level of research for your theses? Did you not have to provide a reliable range of sources? In posing some of your theories here, you provide maybe one piece of evidence to represent an entire national body of work (ie, one recording of Joseph Taylor means this is the way everyone sang).

Very poor. See me after class.