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The histories of the morris in Britain : papers from a conference held at Cecil Sharp House, London, 25-26 March 2017, organized in partnership by Historical Dance Society with English Folk Dance and Song Society and the Morris Ring, the Morris Federation and Open Morris / edited by Michael Heaney.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : English Folk Dance and Song Society & Historical Dance Society, 2018.Description: 362 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780854182183
  • 9780954098834
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Contents:
How to read 'The history of morris dancing' / John Forrest -- Morris and masque at the Jacobean court / Anne Daye -- Rank outsider or outsider of rank: Mr Isaac's dance 'The morris' / Jennifer Thorp -- 'Time to ring some changes': bell ringing and the decline of morris dancing in the earlier eighteenth century / Jameson Wooders -- Morris dancers in the political and civic process / Michael Heaney -- Coconut dances in Lancashire, Mallorca, Provence and on the nineteenth-century stage / Peter Bearon -- 'I ring for the general dance': morris and Englishness in the work of Conrad Noel / Katie Palmer Heathman -- 'Pilgrimages to holy place': the Travelling Morrice, 1924-1939 / Matt Simons -- 'Destruction not inscription': how a pioneering revival side developed / Roy Fenton -- Morris tunes collected by James Madison Carpenter / Elaine Bradtke -- Merrie England, May Day and more: morris dances in Cumbria in the early twentieth century / Sue Allan -- A different sort of revival: the life and times of the Manley morris dancers / Derek Schofield -- Consequences of bringing North-west morris to the South-west of England: the Chanctonbury Ring effect / Sean Goddard and Ed Bassford -- Morris dancing at Kirtlington Lamb Ale: heyday, decline and revival / Robert Dunlop -- What to dance? What to wear? The repertoire and costume of morris women in the 1970s / Sally Wearing -- The Women's Morris Federation, from start to finish / Val Parker -- This girl can morris dance: girls' carnival morris dancing and the politics of participation / Lucy Wright -- Why do morris dancers wear white? / Chloe Metcalfe -- Materializing morris dancing: tangible aspects of an intangible heritage / David Petts.
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How to read 'The history of morris dancing' / John Forrest -- Morris and masque at the Jacobean court / Anne Daye -- Rank outsider or outsider of rank: Mr Isaac's dance 'The morris' / Jennifer Thorp -- 'Time to ring some changes': bell ringing and the decline of morris dancing in the earlier eighteenth century / Jameson Wooders -- Morris dancers in the political and civic process / Michael Heaney -- Coconut dances in Lancashire, Mallorca, Provence and on the nineteenth-century stage / Peter Bearon -- 'I ring for the general dance': morris and Englishness in the work of Conrad Noel / Katie Palmer Heathman -- 'Pilgrimages to holy place': the Travelling Morrice, 1924-1939 / Matt Simons -- 'Destruction not inscription': how a pioneering revival side developed / Roy Fenton -- Morris tunes collected by James Madison Carpenter / Elaine Bradtke -- Merrie England, May Day and more: morris dances in Cumbria in the early twentieth century / Sue Allan -- A different sort of revival: the life and times of the Manley morris dancers / Derek Schofield -- Consequences of bringing North-west morris to the South-west of England: the Chanctonbury Ring effect / Sean Goddard and Ed Bassford -- Morris dancing at Kirtlington Lamb Ale: heyday, decline and revival / Robert Dunlop -- What to dance? What to wear? The repertoire and costume of morris women in the 1970s / Sally Wearing -- The Women's Morris Federation, from start to finish / Val Parker -- This girl can morris dance: girls' carnival morris dancing and the politics of participation / Lucy Wright -- Why do morris dancers wear white? / Chloe Metcalfe -- Materializing morris dancing: tangible aspects of an intangible heritage / David Petts.

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