Question

______, an English folk song collector, published English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians in 1917, initiating a “ballad-hunting” movement in the United States.

Answer 1

Cecil James Sharp

Step-by-step explanation:

Cecil James Sharp was a born in London famously known for his collection of English folk dance and song. In 1911 he founded the English Folk Dance Society where English folk dance and song is taught.

When Sharp visited in America between 1914- 1919 he noted that the people living in the Appalachian mountains performed some of the old English Folk dances and songs. These settlers were from Scottish and Irish ancestry who came to America in the 1700s. Cecil James Sharp helped to create an invulnerable historical connection between some of the songs of the British Isles and Appalachia.