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Thread #165660 Message #3984257
Posted By: Jim Carroll
24-Mar-19 - 05:38 AM
Thread Name: UK 60s Folk Club Boom?
Subject: RE: UK 60s Folk Club Boom?
"British or Irish. The English Folk Dance and Song Society."
To pretend that folk songs, and particularly ballads do't have their counterparts elsewhere and that foreign oral traditions have nothing in common with English ones is as blinkered 'Little English' as you can get
The early EFDSS co-operated with foreign fellow researchers to the point of stumping up a workable definition
It's always struck me how far advanced America and several of the Eastern European researchers into the traditions were (Bronson and Child were Yanks), Child corresponded with Scandinavian researchers
Ireland had a far longer living tradition than did Britain
You expand your knowledge by travelling and meeting strangers, not waitinbg until they come to you, and certainly 0not skipping up and down the Main Hall of Cecil Sharp House
Jim