The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #103171   Message #2746723
Posted By: The Sandman
15-Oct-09 - 01:28 PM
Thread Name: publication does a doubtful service to folksongs
Subject: RE: publication does a doubtful service to folksongs
Has 'Fiddler's Green' been "orally processed" - how many significantly differing variants of it do you know? In my experience, it hasn't moved very far from its original conception.Quote.
interesting,how far do things have to change?does the essence /meaning of the song have to change,or do a few words suffice for it be processed,and who is the arbiter of the judgement.
as far as I am concerned Orally processed,blankets instead of jumpers is sufficent,or jodhpurs instead of jumpers,the first one was the result of a printing error,the second a mishearing.