Prevost 168 "A feature of industrial societies, in the eastern and western blocks, is the absence of an integrated folk heritage. New forms of production have ousted all but small anachronistic pockets of the more intimate formulations we associate with small-scale manufacture and agriculture. With these social forms went the forms of social expression of song, dance and the oral tradition of story-telling, all of which varied from region to region, village to village. Nothing very authentic remains of these traditions [and] [t]he popular representation of the 'folk' tradition is often a perverse travesty"