In 1993 Georgina Boyes produced her book "The Imagined Village – Culture, ideology and the English Folk Revival", which was also highly critical of Sharp. Scholarship by David E. Whisnant, Benjamin Filene, and Daniel Walkowitz later criticized Sharp for manipulating and selectively curating the content of the first revival based on his own class, gender, and racial ideologies, as well as for commercial purposes. American essayist and music journalist Robert Christgau has also been critical of Sharp. Elizabeth DiSavino, in her 2020 biography of Katherine Jackson French and in subsequent interviews, criticized Sharp's minimization of his female and Scottish-diaspora sources.