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Nov 22, 1859 Camberwell, England, United Kingdom Died on 23 Jun 1924 (aged 64)
founding father of the folklore revival in England in the early 20th century
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About Cecil Sharp
- Cecil James Sharp (22 November 1859 – 23 June 1924) was the founding father of the folk-song revival in England.
- 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.
- He also revived the extinct tradition of English country dance, based on his study of surviving rural folk dances as well as written sources; this form of dance as Sharp revived it has by now been actively maintained by enthusiast participants for over a century.
- Sharp promoted Morris dancing, and in 1911 founded the English Folk Dance Society.
