"What I'm saying is the Oral Tradition is the consequence of supremely gifted creative individuals inventing within the disciplines of their given cultural idiom."
The you obviously haven't spoken to somebody who has been part of a living tradition.
If this is the case why don't we know who any of them were?
There are several poets from this area whose work is still popular; Michael Hayes actually published a small collection around the beginning of the 20th century. While a couple of his songs are still circulating as songs they have never altered from the printed version.
On the other hand there are literally dozens of songs dealing with events which took place in the first part of the 1900s which are still sung, have passed into numerous versions and are all anonymous. Surely if an individual is that gifted his/her identity would be known?
It really would be helpful if you provided some evidence on which you base your extremely sweeping, unqualified and loaded statements.
I too have great trouble in following your gobbledegook.
Incientally, the most basic form of oral tradition is 'Chinese Whispers' - or is that the consequence of supremely gifted creative uindividuals.
Jim Carroll