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Thread #111625   Message #2356029
Posted By: irishenglish
03-Jun-08 - 07:20 AM
Thread Name: English Folk Degree?
Subject: RE: English Folk Degree?
IBC? RTE might have something to say about that, as well as the rest of Ireland. I'm quite certain that these words by Dr. Reg Hall have been used on Mudcat before, but I feel they bear repeating for WAV's ears. This, coming from the introductory notes to The Voice Of The People, a collection you should be looking at WAV, in all seriousness. Not strictly English of course, but arguably heavily balanced in that direction. The quote:

Any attempt to describe, let alone define, traditional music and dance is inevitably loaded with paradoxes and contradictions. To start with it there is no popular or even academic consensus about what they include and exclude. Having long existed and cross bred with popular culture, the boundaries between the tradition and popular culture are blurred, and it can be argued there is value in keeping them blurred.

Now WAV, can you tell me out of curiousity, where your recorder is made?