The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #131351   Message #2963668
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
12-Aug-10 - 12:05 PM
Thread Name: Is it permissible-to change a word in an old song?
Subject: RE: Is it permissible-to change a word in an old song?
Suibhne keeps on asserting that "The Tradition and The Revival are two entirely different things" - with the implication that that means two wholly separate things. I'd say there's always been an overlap and a degree of continuity. It's useful enough to keep the distinction between those two terms, as a way of navigating these waters - but as the saying goes, the map isn't the territory.

The assumption that its possible to draw a line in the sand and proclaim that "the Tradition" is ended and completed is a bit like that young historian who decided that the end of the USSR marked "the end of history". But history wasn't listening...