GUEST at 05:19 AM, thank you for the clarification about the history of the EFDSS and Sharp's involvement.

However, it doesn't change the fact that I think Sharp was wrong to ascribe the origins of (white) Appalachian song solely to English sources, and moreover to argue (as he does in the introduction to 'English Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians') that lowland Scots and English musical culture are basically indistinguishable.