Cecil Sharp
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Cecil James Sharp (22 November 1859 – 23 June 1924) was an English-born musician and composer who was a key leader of the folk-song revival in England as a collector, archivist, teacher and promotor. He gathered thousands of tunes both from rural England and the Southern Appalachians region of the United States, and wrote an influential volume, English Folk Song: Some Conclusions.
Based on his study of surviving rural folk dances as well as written sources, he collected, curated and popularized the latent practices of English country dance and Morris dancing. In 1911, he co-founded the English Folk Dance Society (later merged into the English Folk Dance and Song Society). Sharp's legacy survives, as enthusiast participants in North America and the UK (primarily) have performed folk-content collected by Sharp for over a century.
See also
- Country Dance and Song Society, an American folk arts organization spun off from chapters of Sharp's English Folk Dance Society
- William Kimber
- Jane Hicks Gentry
- Mary Neal
- Elizabeth Burchenal