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Thread #129547 Message #2909305
Posted By: GUEST,Gabriel Hound
18-May-10 - 01:24 PM
Thread Name: Adapting trad songs - OK or sacrilege?
Subject: RE: Adapting trad songs - OK or sacrilege?
Walter Pardon always maintained that his songs were proper folk songs because they were exactly as written on the old broadsheets and not mucked about with and changed - although listening to old Walter he did have his own distinctive style of singing so I suppose he unconsciously changed them anyway to his own internalised version. Old pre 'revival' singers often had views about folksong and tradition at odds with some of the views many people have today.