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Thread #168964   Message #4082142
Posted By: The Sandman
06-Dec-20 - 10:25 AM
Thread Name: Sharp and Wales
Subject: RE: Sharp and Wales
i did not realise it was a typo, . i just wondered what the hell you were on about, anyway your intended comment was vacuous.
Sharp was restricted financially and had a certain narrowness of intellect, a kind of tunnel vision about folk song collection being of english roots , funny really considering the roots of morris dancing are arguably moorish ..quote
Morris dancing is a form of English folk dance usually accompanied by music. It is based on ... "a Moor" and "the Morris dance, as it were the Moorish dance", while John Bullokar defined it in 1695 as "a certain dance used among the Moors