Many, many thanks for your answer and for the examples of text editing you
gave me (I didn't even know the name of Blood-Patterson), but I was looking
rather for articles or books *on* that question, for instance, studies on
the alterations done by Romantic editors on the texts they collected from
oral tradition or on why they published some texts and ''forgot'' others.
Do you know any article on that?
J. J.
>
>It's hard to tell, but two prime examples are Cecil Sharp, who redid all
>the naughty bits in his 100 English Folksongs so that the English
>Schoolkids wouldn't be contaminated, and Peter Blood-Patterson, whose Ris
>Up Singing is almost painfully reworked to be Politically Correct.
>
>On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, J. J. Dias Marques wrote:
>
>> I' m looking for studies on alterations done by editors on oral poetry
>> texts, namely on ballads. Can you oblige?
>> Very grateful in advance,
>> J. J. Dias Marques
>>
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