Bert: "The purists just don't get it that's all."

What don't you think "purists" get? Does the fact that I'm interested in very old songs, make me a "purist"? I like modern songs too, though I'm more into dance music and electronica than anything. Of course you can dance to traditional jigs and reels, so would someone distinguishing between modern dance music and a traditional Scottish reel also be a "purist"?

Do you think that a song written today, is just the same as a song that was composed (say) two hundred years ago? Do you think that archivists and enthusiasts, shouldn't distinguish between extremely old songs and modern ones?

Whether some very popular modern songs become 'traditional' for future generations is something I can't really specualte on, but I think it's *possible* depending on how future generations come to define what 'traditional' means for them. Though I rather think the 'folk process' will have to be eliminated from the equation.