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Thread #131656   Message #2974440
Posted By: stallion
28-Aug-10 - 03:42 AM
Thread Name: Folk music more countryside than town?
Subject: RE: Folk music more countryside than town?
Yes but if Joe deleted the guest the rest wouldn't make sense! Anyway it is enough that it made sense, at least it gave me a belly laugh. Insofar as grammar is concerned it's a hoot that someone is criticising grammar on a thread about the oral tradition! The academic excercise of collecting songs shouldn't get confused with the singing of the songs, the vast majority of the people way back when cared little of the provenance of songs but whether they enjoyed singing them, a fact lost to some of the folk world today. As for urban "tradition" it's more like the kareoke today ( ok I can't spell it but you get the drift so no pedant guest post, put a name so we can finger you)