"It was in you that it a'began": some thoughts on the folk conference / Hamish Henderson -- The Border ballads / James Reed -- Calvinism and the survival of folk / Edward J. Cowan -- Traditional music: the material background / Gavin Sprott -- The ballad, the folk and the oral tradition / Hamish Henderson -- Eighteenth-century popular protest: aspects of the people's past / Kenneth Logue -- Old and plain: music and song in Scottish art / Duncan MacMillan -- The pipes and folk music / Hugh Cheape -- Folk and protest / Norman Buchan -- The folksong revival in Scotland / Adam McNaughton -- Folk now / John Barrow -- Postscript: Glasclune and Dunlochy / Hamish Henderson.