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Thread #121219 Message #2644170
Posted By: VirginiaTam
30-May-09 - 10:32 AM
Thread Name: Museum of British Folklore - discuss
Subject: RE: Museum of British Folklore - discuss
I would like to see side by side parallels and comparisons of English, Irish, Scots and Welsh arts. Including timelines and histories of how all traditional arts, moved and changed over time. I get such a thrill when I think I am hearing a song for the first time and suddenly realise this line, or that chorus or that theme is in another song. I want to know which came first, how the songs evolved, who took them up and why.
As an American (living in the UK) of some Scots/Irish ancestry and hailing from the Appalachia, I would love to see how same traditions were carried over, altered and brought back to the British Isles. But that is asking too much. Or is it?