The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #123431   Message #2721384
Posted By: GUEST,Working Radish
11-Sep-09 - 06:52 AM
Thread Name: What is The Tradition?
Subject: RE: What is The Tradition?
In a similar way we have a tradition of songs associated with people who have been singing in Folk Clubs since the 1950s.

That's true - and oral transmission lives on, to an extent - but it's a very different thing: all the earlier examples are of people bound together by work & everyday life, who also sang. If people singing in Folk Clubs also carried a tradition of whittling and scrimshaw, now...