Steve ~~ Surely we are talking of the ORAL tradition, however we consider its contents and artefacts to have originated or entered it. So what is the relevance of this 'modicum of literacy' to the discourse? Surely the whole point is the possibility that the words and tunes originated orally, and were originally so transmitted, before being committed to paper at all ~~ so 'literacy' would not have been a necessary [or even, perhaps, from the pov of some, a desirable] factor?

~M~