Greetings!

[Harry Miller]

On Sat, 2 Sep 1995 Yaakov wrote:

> I do primarily story-telling and poetry and, to kick off the first
> discussion, wage a personal campaign to eliminate the use of the word
> "bardic" to describe all entertainment activitiy.

Huzzah and Hear Hear.  I knew I wasn't the only one to find this a very 
Silly Thing, and about as annoying as calling everything that is vaguely 
mystic or Euro-nature-oriented "Celtic."  Not that I want to get these 
discussions off to a cranky start.  Perhaps someone could tell us how the 
term came to be the generic one?

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Harry A. W. Miller                      Student of Music Library Stuff
hmiller at u.washington.edu                Ethnomusicology dilettante
Gruffydd Llandaff the Goliard           Learner of Welsh