Incidentally, "traditional" is not a synonym for "folk". All anonymous traditional music is folk, but not all folk music is either traditional or (in my contentious opinion) anonymous in that music (including song for this purpose) may enter the currency of a community, and be transmitted through and modified by that community without (in these days of modern media) passing through the oral tradition or the identity of the original writer being lost.


Oh shit, before the horses get here I spot the psychobabble brigade coming out from behind their open university degrees.