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Thread #173482 Message #4206884
Posted By: The Sandman
11-Aug-24 - 12:30 PM
Thread Name: Origins of traditional songs
Subject: RE: Origins of traditional songs
Doug, Iam trying to discuss something steve gardham said here quote steve gardham, below What I have always said is that approx. 90% of the canon of English traditional songs have their earliest extant version on printed street literature or similar. that's a FACT. My OPINION, after 50 years of studying the relationship between print and oral tradition and hundreds of individual songs, is that 95% of them originated in this way. "
my opinion, is that this is inaccurate, steve has yet to provide evidence for what he calls facts