Musical Borrowing
An Annotated Bibliography

Individual record

[+] Vaughan Williams, Ralph. "The Folk-song." In National Music and Other Essays, ed. Michael Kennedy, 21-27. 2nd ed. London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Some have considered musical borrowing and the "cult of archaism" to be wrong on moral grounds, but this is a protest by the establishment which profits by maintenance of the musical status quo.

Index Classifications: General, 1900s

Contributed by: Rob Lamborn



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