The folk handbook : working with songs from the English tradition /
Creative director: Nigel Osborne ; Editor: John Morrish ; Design: Paul Cooper ; Music editor: Rod Fogg ; transcriptions of CD tracks: Julian Elloway.
- New York : Backbeat, 2007.
- 288 p. : ill., music ; 28 cm.
With accompanying CD: shelved at SCD 1325.
An introduction to folk / Vic Gammon -- Folk portraits / John Morrish -- Folk and the English / John Morrish -- English folk song in America / Stephanie Smith -- The folk revivals / Mark Brend -- Folk in Britain today / Nigel Williamson -- Folk in America today / David Sheppard -- The music of English folk song / Rikky Rooksby -- Working with folk song / Martin Carthy -- The folk songbook / Malcolm Taylor, David Atkinson and John Howson.
Selection of 90 English folk songs with essays on collectors, traditional singers, folk revivals, bibliography, discography.