The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #173482 Message #4206890
Posted By: Steve Gardham
11-Aug-24 - 02:34 PM
Thread Name: Origins of traditional songs
Subject: RE: Origins of traditional songs
Let me have your email by pm, Dick, and you can have a copy of the database. Those researchers who have taken an interest already have a copy.
Re 'hacks' Note, the use of inverted commas. At the time that article was written that was the derogatory term used by most writers on the subject. I no longer use the term, other than to quote others who do.
Re songs collected by Sharp et al in the first revival, you are sadly out of touch, Dick. You sing plenty of them yourself. The corpus collected in England from about 1890 to 1920 differs very little from what has been collected and published since WWII.