On 2015-03-16 11:31 AM, David Lewis wrote:
> ...the judgment is a problem for every musician,
> and in turn every musician ought to band together to reverse it, as the
> judgment itself reverses at least six centuries of forward development in
> music.

The traditions of "folk music" acknowledge this recycling and reuse as
"the folk process." Didn't Julia Ward Howe set her "Battle Hymn of the
Republic" to the "folk" tune "John Brown's Body" which apparently was at
least partially composed by a collective at a "camp meeting?"

I agree with your call to action.


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