The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #124165   Message #2740909
Posted By: Joe Offer
07-Oct-09 - 10:31 PM
Thread Name: Mudcatter Interviews?
Subject: RE: Mudcatter Interviews?
I was going to say the Internet destroys oral tradition, but maybe just the opposite is true. The print and recorded media stopped the folk process because they limited the transmission of songs - only those who got published could transmit and affect the life of songs.
The Internet, on the other hand, may be able to revive the folk process, since everyone can publish words, video, and sound on the Internet for the world to hear.

-Joe-