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A distinction must be made before Mountain Songs and ballads; the latter is of a totally different nature but could have been labelled 'Hakka Mountain Songs'
I See Faure op cit, Chapter 8, on the relationship between village leadership and the "gentry"
In retrospect, my study of folk songs, especially Mountain Songs, fails to consider how their popularity relates to the strength of the hieratic tradition in the village