The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #46450   Message #690641
Posted By: CarolC
15-Apr-02 - 02:08 PM
Thread Name: Singing from books: Why?
Subject: RE: Singing from books: Why?
I need to make a correction to my previous post...

I didn't mean to suggest that other folk traditions are not the result of interpretation and 'folk memory'. But I am saying that your traditions are not the default tradition. And it's not an automatic given that anyone comes from just one tradition anyway, and that it's necessarily more legitimate to limit oneself to just the traditions represented by one's ancestry.