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Thread #162666   Message #3937966
Posted By: Jim Carroll
17-Jul-18 - 01:26 PM
Thread Name: New Book: Folk Song in England
Subject: RE: New Book: Folk Song in England
Jack
It's always been an accepted fact that technology and literacy turned the people into passive recipients of their culture rather than makers of it
Your apparent interest in foreign culture will have told you of the effects of acculturation and outside intervention, I am sure
I think the ephemeral stuff still had resonance
LIKE THIS
AND PARTICULARLY THIS
The latter. for me, is a brilliant example of a complex subject satarised by a non-professional

Dick - Please read my posts
I'm happy to accept the '54 definition until a better one comes along
If you can't follow that, I don't know how to help you
Jim