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Thread #127587   Message #2861423
Posted By: Jim Carroll
10-Mar-10 - 06:35 PM
Thread Name: Is traditional song finished?
Subject: RE: Is traditional song finished?
So next to Walter Pardon's, Tom Lenihan's, Martin Reidy's, Mary Delaney's, Bill Cassidy's, Mikeen McCarthy's songs.... and all those given to us by other such wonderful people, all of whom were so generous with their time, knowledge and experience we have to include:
D: New songs that have become associated with some traditional activity such as football.
E: New songs that have become very popular and are starting to be adapted in small ways.
F: New songs that are not traditional but which people think are traditional in ignorance.
G: Songs which have been passed orally through a family or other community.
H: Anything sung in a folk club
I: Anything performed by artists who play at folk clubs and festivals.
J: Anything broadcast on a radio station that has a folk handle.
K: Protest songs
L: Songs played on acoustic or otherwise 'folky' instruments.
M: Songs performed with a solo guitar or similar instrument.
N: Songs with a certain brittle style.
O: Songs with big choruses that suit pub singing etc.
P: Story songs.
R: All public domain songs
S: Anything more than X years old (x varies from person to person).
T: Songs that sound like traditional songs.
U: Songs that have a similar construction to traditional songs
V: Songs on similar topics to traditional songs (work or lifestyle -specially if Olden Days)
W: Songs about The Olden Days
X: Songs about Nice Places, specially if they've got cliffs in.

Sorry - can't do it; they would have hated the idea as much as I do, especially Walter.
For all the mealy mouthed insistence on the part of 'good club organisers' that we owe it to these people to make their material available - I think my instincts were right in the first place and they should remain on the shelf to see if posterity can make a better job of it.
You asked for evidence of the state of the revival Bryan - there you have it - enjoy.
Jim Carroll