Traditional Singers and singers of Trad

Subject: RE: Tradtional Singers and singers of Trad
From: Robert B. Waltz
Date: 10 Mar 25 - 02:26 PM

I suspect this is a troll, but I suppose it should be answered anyway.

The whole point of a song being traditional is that it was learned from tradition. If you learned it from a recording, you didn't learn it from tradition.

That doesn't make the song worse. It says nothing about the quality of the performance. But the whole point of saying something is traditional is the oral transmission. The word is INFORMATIONAL.

We've already lost the word "folk" to mean "acoustic singer-songwriter." Let's not mess with the word "traditional."

Subject: RE: Tradtional Singers and singers of Trad
From: r.padgett
Date: 10 Mar 25 - 08:39 AM

Not sure what you mean here

I don't think we have at least in England, many Traditional, active singers, these may also be deemed song source singers

Singers of Traditional songs abound, but they are NOT as i have said before, Traditional singers imv

Who ever sings and what and how they sing can be judged by the audience

Ray

Subject: Tradtional Singers and singers of Trad
From: The Sandman
Date: 10 Mar 25 - 04:16 AM

Why judge traditional singers differently from singers of traditional songs.In every other form of music we judge on performance not how the music was learned