minstrel: "Traditional" songs?, Portmore

Greg Lindahl lindahl at pbm.com
Wed Jan 15 17:06:00 PST 2003


One of the fun things about "traditional" music is that oral
transmission is often cited as a characteristic, but in the
modern era, "fakebooks" are commonly available. That probably
has an effect on the mutation rate.

-- Gregory Blount




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