Azizi

Ouch.

I have actual (now dead) relatives who appear in the history of my home state (not Virginia) for what I personally consider to be the wrong reasons.

Anyway,

Although I made it clear that my comment was about the States, I was hoping that contributors to the thread might enlighten me about similarities or dissimilarities with the folk "presentation/preservation/revival movement(s)" in the UK.

So far that hasn't happened.

So far, we've gotten the usual disclaimers that "I am not racist," "my club is not racist," "I/we like all kinds of music", etc.

Now, all I know about English Folk Music is what I read on mudcat.

But I do have Cecil Sharp's book, "English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachian Mountains".

I cannot recall any items collected from non-white Appalachian Americans.

I would be happy to be corrected on this.