Try again:
"In one thing I hope we can all agree, that Traditional English Speaking Folk Song and Ballad represents the finest literature there is"
If, as you put it a post or so ago, "All music is born of tradition, therefore all music is traditional", how does Strangers in the Night differ in definition from Lord Gregory, Tifties Annie or all the other "Traditional English Speaking Folk Song and Ballad"?
If, as you just said "all music is traditional music by default", would you include Strangers in the Night, referred to by many as a ballad, certainly in the English language, and a folk song if performed in one of your 'folk contexts' according to you, in your fulsome praise of ballads?
Jim Carroll