Periodical article.

The forty-third Katharine Briggs Memorial Lecture, 7 November 2023.

"This article asks questions about the ethnocentrism, xenology, and racism at work in the ways that the history of traditional music in the British Isles has been recorded and understood. It concludes with a thought experiment in which several alternative ancestral figures are selected in the hope that their unexpected presence might reorient these narratives", abstract.