'The Outlandish Knight': A Test Case for the Use of Phylogenetic Analysis in Folk Songs.
The evolutionary mechanisms that drive variation among living organisms have many close parallels to those which drive variation among folk songs. There are similarities between the process of DNA mutation, which leads to new animal species, and the so-called 'traditional process' which is postulate...
| Publicado en: | Folk Music Journal Vol. 12; no. 5; pp. 75 - 86 |
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English Folk Dance & Song Society
2025
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