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GUEST,RA | Origins: Songs from Ireland Popular in the US (20) | RE: Origins: Songs from Ireland Popular in the US | 19 Mar 20 |
I suspect that many of the songs that Cecil Sharp found in the Appalachians were of Irish origin, but he claimed that they were of English origin. This is a man who thought that lowland Scotland and England were, culturally speaking, essentially the same, after all. I wouldn't be surprised if he purposely overlooked material of clearly Irish origin. |