@JustinHowe @SFRuminations Which isn’t surprising: in an oral tradition, some degree of shuffling and decay is inevitable. This book really blew my mind in terms of alternate conceptions of creative work:

https://t.co/11HjNC8mbu

(free to read online!) @JustinHowe @SFRuminations You had troubadours who were like, “Hey, think you can remix this shit? Go for it!” Then you had others who were using tricky schemes like using homophones (deer/dear) in the last line of one verse and the first of the next to make sure people didn’t mess up their songs.