Storys are for many purposes.


Too often we think only of entertainment but many were created for the transfer of information or moraltiy.....

We too often think of folk performance when performance, that is for entertainment is only one purpose of many of folk artifacts.

The most important purpose is transference from one generation to another. This requires often a different presentation style- rote learning is not always entertaining.

Is transference of folk artifacts from one generation getting overshadowed by the dominance of entertainment which does not serve transference as well.

So often professionals wishing to maintain scarcity fail to transfer and in some cases tell audiences that the story or folk artifact is theirs alone, invoke copyright and prohibit this most important of functions.

Conrad