WAV once more spouts,"English folk songs and folk music are discriminated against, less learned, less studied, less performed and less propagated than many others."

Right, I want to see actual academic proof that this so, and PLEASE don't dare link your 'proof' to your excrutiatingly bad 'verse'website. Does the Vaughn Williams Library at Cecil Sharp House have papers backing your claims? ummm...what about Newcastle University? The very excellent Yorkshire Garland data base? I'll try one more. What about Rod Stradling's absolutely wonderful Musical Traditions website, anything in the articlesthere?