ABSTRACT
It is a commonplace that production and consumption are interdependent. Without production of material or cultural goods, there can be no consumption. Without a demand for, and consumption of, the use-values embodied in those goods, there is no impetus for continuing production. In certain areas of popular culture, the relation between production and consumption has another aspect. There, the producers of today are frequently the consumers of yesterday. Through the experience of consuming music as a listener, many individuals are drawn into producing music of their own. Folk culture provides the clearest example of this process, since it involves informal but deliberate procedures for the oral transmission of an expanding folksong repertoire from one generation to the next.
