The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #157044 Message #3706072
Posted By: Steve Gardham
03-May-15 - 10:06 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Barbara Allen
Subject: RE: Origins: Barbara Allen
The word 'traditional' is only useful when both the user and the audience have a good idea which 'tradition' they are referring to, and in fact that both parties are referring to the same tradition. For instance one party might be referring to the print tradition and the other to oral tradition. Then of course there are the folk scene tradition, literary tradition and a whole host of others.