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Posted By: StephenH
03-Apr-17 - 01:11 PM
Thread Name: Who Wrote the First Folk Song BBC The Li
Subject: Who Wrote the First Folk Song BBC The Li
THe BBC's "The Listening Service" has this as a topic for an episode. Guests are Fay Hield and Steve Roud. As the presenter intimates at the beginning, a 30 min program isn't really a lot of time to muse on this question, and at the end says: "Who wrote the first folk song? It just doesn't matter, what matters is what you do with it." So here's the link for anyone interested, I thought it enjoyable for what it was.