"No answer and no citations. He lives in a dream world."..after.."Don and Smokey (which could also be a description for most of the posts that followed): while the changes/developments you post were going on in churches and courts, folk in England and other countries did persist, over the centuries, with their oral tradition of unaccompanied singing and dance tunes……." (me)..You know, because you were there, David? I don't think so. Where did you pick up this notion? GIVE DOCUMENTATION TO BACK UP YOUR CONTENTION." (Don)...short memory, Don, because you were well involved in the "Chords in Folk?" thread, which has plenty of links/documentation; but I'll briefly mention others who you may respect: Lomax, Sharp, RVW...

Volgadon - I have covered those questions on mudcat and in my life's work; obviously my family, like so many more, chose to leave seeing a better life for us, and, as an adult, I gradually began to question capitalist/ecomomic immigration/emigration more-and-more...travel, anthropology, etc (use link below).

To Stu and the Mudcat moderators - I went to fix the abovementioned spelling on my master copy and found that it's correct there and on my website where I copy/pasted it from; and, before a string of fibber/mad type posts, hacking has happened here before, I did get an email from a mod. about it, and paperbacks of the very same collection have been in libraries since 2003, if you wished to check.