After some digressions that were extremely interesting, we got to this point in PART ONE:

Subject: RE: Minstrel Shows
From: WYSIWYG
Date: 11-Jun-02 - 08:51 PM

Butch, that seems quite clear.

Perhaps now we can get back to the things we had been talking about... maybe I can simplify.

1. WHAT are the connections between this music and other "folk music" we know now?

2. HOW do you discuss it and present it, effectively?

(And what happens when you do?)

~Susan