The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #131826   Message #2983324
Posted By: Paul Davenport
09-Sep-10 - 02:38 PM
Thread Name: Child Ballads survived in oral trad.
Subject: RE: Child Ballads survived in oral trad.
'There is a mystique surrounding the ballads, most visible when the academic attempts to separate them from their common origins and elevate it to a 'higher level.' Spot on Jim, that's the point I was trying to make, 'perhaps that they don't warrant' was maybe a tad clumsy.