The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #119547   Message #2602304
Posted By: Rifleman (inactive)
01-Apr-09 - 12:06 PM
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."

RVW was know to ermmmmm..change the odd word or six, shall we say, mind you so did A. L. Lloyd