Cecil Franklin Sharp of New Castle, Del. Cecil Franklin Sharp, 64, of New Castle, Del., passed away on Sunday, November 28, 2010. Born February 15, 1946 in West Chester, he was the son of Irene ...
Forty years ago a sharp-nosed, ascetic British antiquarian named Cecil Sharp noted that in certain remote parts of England, primitive villagers dressed themselves in strange costumes and skittered ...
Or did he? Sharp’s legacy has divided academic opinion since the 1980s, attracting complaints that he was a racist (he collected Appalachian songs but none from people of colour), a sexist who ignored ...