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I think the Guardian article is a bit weird. They slag off Cecil Sharpe, the godfather of folk song collecting.Good to see Brixton's own Tatterjacks Morris being featured in the Guardian:
‘Morris is a creature of its own’: a dance for a new age – photo essay
From all-female sides to youth teams and an appearance at the Brit awards, photographer Rachel Adams has been chronicling England’s oldest surviving rural tradition, and seeing how it has found a place in 21st-century Britainwww.theguardian.com
Then they go on about Cecil being inclined to the pagan origins of Morris and claim it is not that but an importation of European courtly dances.
How about the Moresca? Moresca - Wikipedia
This Spanish tradition surely accounts for the controversial "blacking up" tradition which is now commonly replaced by such devices as wearing plague doctors' masks.