Response: This great folk song collector was not a controlling manipulator

English cultural life owes a great deal to Cecil Sharp's passion for music, song and danceYour article about the eight folk "stars" assembled to write a song suite about Cecil Sharp, "the great song collector … [who] helped lay the foundations of the modern folk revival", demonstrates that they are peddling myths and prejudices (Deconstructing folk's man of mystery, Film & Music, 25 March).We learn that contemporary songwriter Steve Knightley is seeking inspiration from "images of Sharp on his...

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