"If it hadn't been for the people whose work is kept in the VW memorial library and similar, it wouldn't by ANYBODY's music because most of it would have vanished without trace."


But, er...the songs were being handed down 'as a natural process' via families, people who lived in the villages, travelled through them etc.

How can you possibly state that those songs would have 'vanished' if they hadn't been 'collected'...?

Surely that's just supposition.

(in or out of the 9th person plural)