The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #131826   Message #2979055
Posted By: Haruo
03-Sep-10 - 02:50 AM
Thread Name: Child Ballads survived in oral trad.
Subject: RE: Child Ballads survived in oral trad.
If my dad learned, say, Mary Hamilton (is that in Child? yup, 173, thank'ee kindly, Wikipedia) from a Joan Baez recording, and then I learned it orally from him, does that count as a Child survival? That is the order of transmission in fact for that one. There are many other songs I learned orally from my dad for which I have no idea what his source or mode of learning was.

Haruo