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Thread #173482 Message #4206903
Posted By: The Sandman
12-Aug-24 - 03:50 AM
Thread Name: Origins of traditional songs
Subject: RE: Origins of traditional songs
I think it most likely that the printing presses started printing broadsides and the broadside writers started composing because there was a demand, which suggests to me, that people had been making up songs before the arrival of the printing presses. which reinforcec My statement that the tradtional repertoire consists of songs that were composed BOTH BY Broadside writers and ordinary people who made up songs before the arrival of the printing presses