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Thread #119547 Message #2601980
Posted By: Will Fly
01-Apr-09 - 05:02 AM
Thread Name: 1954 and All That - defining folk music
Subject: RE: 1954 and All That - defining folk music
This whole thread isblown to hell. Recent research, published today in the Musicological Review, has revealed, shockingly, that Cecil Sharp and Ralph Vaughan Williams did not collect the folk songs they had claimed to collect - but actually wrote them all themselves.