From: NO_SPAM_asale@ft.newyorklife.com   
      
   On 14 Dec 2006 00:12:04 -0800, j_nscott@msn.com wrote:   
      
   >[...] Well, there's a certain amount but it's all the pop, emotionally   
   >> appealing end - bluegrass, fiddle, "old time."  It seems that NC scholars   
   >> and folklifists hate song and ballad.[...]   
   >   
   >"Old time" includes songs and ballads.   
   >   
      
   Of course.  And superb ones.  All the more why it's so sad they're ignored.   
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