Quite a lot of the points raised on this thread as to Bert's views on what really constitute folk music were dealt with in an earlier interview I did with him for Folk Review which appeared in the issue for September 1974. It constitutes however a close-printed 3xA4 pages, and the relevant matter is scattered thru parts of his life-story and comments on other matters; so it would not be possible to extract the parts relating to this thread and reproduce them here. If anyone would like a copy, email your postal address to me - mgmyer@keme[dot]co[dot]uk - and I will happily send you a fotocopy.

If anyone wants to follow up his essay called 'The Meaning of Folk Music' in the book "Folk Music In School",part of CUP's Resources of Music series, referred to above (to which I was also a contributor so have a copy to hand), the publication details are: Folk Music In School, edited Robert Leach & Roy Palmer, Cambridge Universtiy Press 1978 {ISBN 0 521 21595}.

Michael Grosvenor Myer