The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #121588   Message #2661221
Posted By: Paul Burke
20-Jun-09 - 08:45 PM
Thread Name: Folk Music genealogy?
Subject: RE: Folk Music genealogy?
It's more like bacteria, that can swap juicy bits of DNA and run 20 generations in an hour, than the stately progress of mammalian natural selection. But there's a good Doctoral thesis for somebody in matching the song (and tune) variations to migrations.