The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #113211   Message #2406934
Posted By: GUEST,Volgadon
06-Aug-08 - 04:24 PM
Thread Name: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (temp.)
She's Canadian, when you obviously mean from the USA.
Here are some things supposedly traditionally English:
Morris dances- Of Spanish origin, possibly from North Africa too.
Tennis- Developement of a French game.
Recorders- The earliest examples were discovered along the Northern Seaboard and the Baltics, including Poland. The earliest image of one comes from the Balkans. Most of the innovations in it's developement were carried out by the French, most of the makers were German. Most of the music was italianate, even when composed by Englishmen!! They, obviously, were not practising their own culture.