Nick Dow wrote:-
"Who ever is right or wrong is a trifle compared with the fact that it's killed the Gypsy singing tradition stone dead in the family.
'We don't sing the songs now, we just put the tape on' "

It may not be quite as bad as you think, Nick. About four years ago. Shirley Collins received an email from someone saying that she was a grandaughter and that she had heard that Shirley had some recordings of Caroline and could she send them to her as she was interested.
This was the case; Shirley included a number of songs from both John and Caroline in her show I'm A Romany Rai. As I was the one who prepared the recordings for the show, Shirley passed the email on to me. I made .mp3 recordings of the tracks that we used in the show and emailed them on to her. I heard nothing back for months, then received an email thanking me and stating that she and her sister had learned songs from the recordings I sent and had sung them at their village Christmas concert.