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Thread #167418   Message #4038984
Posted By: GUEST,jag
11-Mar-20 - 06:06 AM
Thread Name: How To Research the History of a Song
Subject: RE: How To Research the History of a Song
No sorry I quoted Joseph Jacobs on another thread "The Folk is simply a name for our ignorance... ... Yes, I repeat it, the Folk is a fraud, a delusion, a myth."

The on topic point is that researching something may involve reading about concepts that some specialists in the field don't agree with. Simply quoting "the academic literature" is risky.