Well, you did ask, jag!
Jim, I am having problems with this agreement lark. That's twice now. What is Mudcat coming to?

jag, it isn't a good one at all. As I stated it is a bare minimum possible example. There is a lot more to it than that, but as Jim is saying here, the concept is very simple and straightforward. There is a print tradition, a manuscript tradition and all sorts of other traditions, but all the 'oral tradition' is is passing on information by mouth to ear, and it is a tradition that still happens today, although much compounded by modern technology.

Charles Seeger's long-winded approach is that of a musicologist. I'd rather read one by one of his children, Pete, Peggy, Mike. We'd then be able to understand it, and it would be much closer to what Jim and I are saying.