Subject: RE: Folklore: Baring-Goulds Constructions
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 21 Mar 14 - 03:13 AM

Does it matter........

When historians tell us that certain artefacts are medieval and 'of the folk' when they are really 18th century imitations or even their own invention....

When someone tries to pass off a replica of a work of art as an original.......

When propagandists deliberately distort history for their personal ends.......

When Cecil Sharp tells us that folk songs were produced by peasantry going back into the mists of time, when actually he is well aware that most were produced by sophisticated songwriters and broadside hacks only a century earlier......

When politicians try to pass off their opinions as facts.....

When the Met shred all their records of their investigations into the Lawrence Family........etc.?

When first we practice to deceive
practise, Steve, practice used as a verb is unscholarly, all your different statements have different answers.
1. History has always been propoganda and has always been distorted.
2. if it fools us it merely shows how good the fake is, it does not matter at all if it is a good work,it exposes the snobbery attached to names in art, and the snobbery attached to something being traditional or by Baring Gould, everything that is traditional was in its original form written by someone, so why does it matter it is either a song worth singing or not worth singing.
3 Cecil Sharp, we can work out for ourselves that he had an agenda , so it is not important.
4.It has always happened so you learn to question everything, so not important
5. it just shows politicians in their true colors.
6.now that is more important, but does not surprise me., the Police are there to protect the very wealthy and cover up for themselves.
7. Is that a royal we, I am always honest, but I put more or less importance to different of your questions
   go and make music and forget this attempt on your part to justify scholarly trivia.