Weeelllllll.
Sorry but it does seem to me, as very nonacademic and ill educated individual,that although we need someone who is able and willing to record the old songs,there seems to be little reference in some of the threads,to the enjoyment the performance of the materiel brings to performer and audience alike.
There does to my outsiders eyes seem to be a slight tendency to value the old reclaimed/rediscovered, and music in general, by the amount of research done.
At times it seems that we should not really enjoy this "music of ours",until it has been validated, by what to me, would probably appear a dull and turgid paper or thesis as to its merits.
I am probably wrong but do find some of the points of view expressed sometimes a little elitist and exclusive.
Maybe this is all because of my IQ only being normal and education negligible,but I do notice this tendency in general life and in the workplace.
Having said all that I really enjoy music when |I get chance to hear it,so mustn't grumble eh?