Article: The Conspiracy of Good Taste: William Morris, Cecil Sharp, Clough Williams-Ellis and the Repression of Working Class Culture in the 20th Century.

Article: The Mystery of the Whistling Sewermen: How Cecil ...
Folk Music Journal;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... tunes' and were invited into Cecil Sharp's home, where he recorded ... occasion on Boxing Day 1899 when Cecil Sharp, who was staying with his ... as being the place 'where Cecil Sharp first heard William Kimber ... Club, a society to help working-class girls in London, and ...

Article: Still Growing. English Traditional Songs and Singers from the ...
Folklore;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Traditional Songs and Singers from the Cecil Sharp Collection. Edited by Steve Roud ... collection of "The Seeds of Love" by Cecil Sharp. When Sharp heard it, the song was ... 1903 was celebrated last year by the Cecil Sharp Centenary Conference in Ilminster ...

Article: Sowing the Seeds: Cecil Sharp and Charles Marson in ...
Folk Music Journal;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...2003 marks the centenary of Cecil Sharp's first folk-song collecting ... in November 1903. Introduction Cecil Sharp collected his first folk song ... collected and published songs before Cecil Sharp, but the level, depth and subsequent ...

Article: The Cecil Sharp Centenary Collective: As I Cycled ...
Sing Out!;  September 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ...THE CECIL SHARP CENTENARY COLLECTIVE As I Cycled out ... celebrate the 100th anniversary of Cecil Sharp collecting his first folk song, a ... now classic interpretation. Would Cecil Sharp mind such radical reworkings of ancient ...

Article: Books: Make a song and dance about it A Dictionary of English ...
The Independent - London;  July 30, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... English folklore. On Boxing Day 1899, Cecil Sharp (1859-1924) watched the Headington ... within the English Folk Dance Society. Cecil Sharp won the day with his insistence that ... because, after years of adulation, Cecil Sharp has more recently been under attack ...

Article: Cecil Sharp in Somerset: some reflections on the ...
Folklore;  April 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Abstract David Harker's criticism of Cecil Sharp's work has been called the "beginning of serious critical ... in Britain are based. Introduction This article is about Cecil Sharp (1859-1924), the dominant figure of the early twentieth ...

Dictionary definition: Cecil Sharp House
A Dictionary of English Folklore;      312 words ...Cecil Sharp House. Built by public subscription in memory of founder Cecil Sharp , to serve as the national headquarters of the English Folk Dance Society , and (from 1932) the English Folk Dance and Song Society , the House was opened on 7 June ...