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Thread #143131   Message #3302004
Posted By: Jack Campin
04-Feb-12 - 09:34 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: non peasant oral tradition did it exist
Subject: RE: Folklore: non peasant oral tradition did it exist
The proportion of ABC1 sources would be much higher if you looked at orally transmitted bawdy songs - rugby and drinking songs, hash-house-harrier stuff and so on. For the kind of material Legman and Cray published, virtually all the singers had college degrees.