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Folk song : tradition, revival, and re-creation / edited by Ian Russell and David Atkinson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Occasional publications ; 3Analytics: Show analyticsPublication details: Aberdeen : The Elphinstone Institute, 2004.Description: 555 p. : ill., music ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0954568206
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Contents:
Introduction / Ian Russell -- One hundred years of the Folk-Song Society / Vic Gammon -- The Ballad Society: a forgotten chapter in the history of English ballad studies / Sigrid Rieuwerts -- The Little Song-Smith: a printed folk song anthology and its reception among Ingrian peasants, 1849-1900 / Thomas A. Dubois -- Folk song in Lithuania / Nijolė Sliužinskienė and Rimantas Sliužinskas -- Compositional processes and the aesthetics of originality: reflections on a ballad in a twentieth century Finnish opera / Tina K. Ramnarine -- Transformations of tradition in the Folkways anthology / Edmund O'Reilly -- Choosing the right folk: the appointment of 'human cultural properties' in Korea / Roald Maliangkay -- Folk club or epic theatre: Brecht's influence on the performance practice of Ewan MacColl / Michael Verrier -- British folk songs in popular music settings / Robert Burns -- Ghosts of voices: English folk(-rock) musicians and the transmission of traditional music / Britta Sweers -- Revival: genuine or spurious? / David Atkinson -- The Telfer Manuscript: ballad and song collecting in the Northumbrian Borders / John Wesley Barker -- Sabine Baring-Gould and his old singing-men / Martin Graebe -- Folk song and the 'folk': a relationship illuminated by Frank Kidson's Traditional Tunes / John Francmanis -- 'Dear Mr. Walker': the letters of Gavin Greig to William Walker of Aberdeen / Robert S. Thomson -- Collectors of English-language songs for the Irish Folklore Commission, 1935-1970 / Tom Munnelly -- Roving out: Peter Kennedy and the BBC Folk Music and Dialect Recording Scheme, 1952-1957 / E. David Gregory -- Lucy Etheldred Broadwood: her scholarship and ours / Lewis Jones -- Anne Geddes Gilchrist: an assessment of her contributions to folk song scholarship / Catherine A. Shoupe -- An 'English' lady among Welsh folk: Ruth Herbert Lewis and the Welsh Folk-Song Society / E. Wyn James -- Unnatural selection: Maud Karpeles's Newfoundland field diaries / Martin Lovelace -- Annabel Morris Buchanan and her folk song collection / Lyn Wolz -- The life and legacy of a New Brunswick folk song collector / Margaret Steiner -- A thematic reconsideration of the textual ancestors of 'The Bitter Withy' / Andrew King -- 'Mylecharaine': a forgotten call to nationhood / Fenella Crowe Bazin -- The ballad singer and seller depicted in the works of William Hogarth / Andrew C. Rouse -- 'The Brown Girl' (Child 295B): a Baring-Gould concoction? / Steve Gardham -- 'Spencer the Rover': an old soldier? / Simon Furey -- Joseph Taylor from Lincolnshire: a biography of a singer / Ruairidh Greig -- Bell Duncan: 'The greatest ballad singer of all time'? / Julia C. Bishop -- Sam Howard and the east Norfolk singing tradition, 1919-1936 / Christopher Heppa -- A matriarch of song: Belle Stewart, 'The Queen Amang the Heather' / Sheila Douglas -- A study of tongch'ojesinging style in Korean narrative song, p'ansori / Yeonok Jang -- Clyde Covill: reconstructing a community tradition / Jennifer C. Post -- Songs from under the Flightpath: environmental protest song in context / Simon Heywood
Summary: Papers from the 10-12 July 1998 conference in Sheffield co sponsored by EFDSS and NATCECT

Bibliography: p. 496-527.

Introduction / Ian Russell -- One hundred years of the Folk-Song Society / Vic Gammon -- The Ballad Society: a forgotten chapter in the history of English ballad studies / Sigrid Rieuwerts -- The Little Song-Smith: a printed folk song anthology and its reception among Ingrian peasants, 1849-1900 / Thomas A. Dubois -- Folk song in Lithuania / Nijolė Sliužinskienė and Rimantas Sliužinskas -- Compositional processes and the aesthetics of originality: reflections on a ballad in a twentieth century Finnish opera / Tina K. Ramnarine -- Transformations of tradition in the Folkways anthology / Edmund O'Reilly -- Choosing the right folk: the appointment of 'human cultural properties' in Korea / Roald Maliangkay -- Folk club or epic theatre: Brecht's influence on the performance practice of Ewan MacColl / Michael Verrier -- British folk songs in popular music settings / Robert Burns -- Ghosts of voices: English folk(-rock) musicians and the transmission of traditional music / Britta Sweers -- Revival: genuine or spurious? / David Atkinson -- The Telfer Manuscript: ballad and song collecting in the Northumbrian Borders / John Wesley Barker -- Sabine Baring-Gould and his old singing-men / Martin Graebe -- Folk song and the 'folk': a relationship illuminated by Frank Kidson's Traditional Tunes / John Francmanis -- 'Dear Mr. Walker': the letters of Gavin Greig to William Walker of Aberdeen / Robert S. Thomson -- Collectors of English-language songs for the Irish Folklore Commission, 1935-1970 / Tom Munnelly -- Roving out: Peter Kennedy and the BBC Folk Music and Dialect Recording Scheme, 1952-1957 / E. David Gregory -- Lucy Etheldred Broadwood: her scholarship and ours / Lewis Jones -- Anne Geddes Gilchrist: an assessment of her contributions to folk song scholarship / Catherine A. Shoupe -- An 'English' lady among Welsh folk: Ruth Herbert Lewis and the Welsh Folk-Song Society / E. Wyn James -- Unnatural selection: Maud Karpeles's Newfoundland field diaries / Martin Lovelace -- Annabel Morris Buchanan and her folk song collection / Lyn Wolz -- The life and legacy of a New Brunswick folk song collector / Margaret Steiner -- A thematic reconsideration of the textual ancestors of 'The Bitter Withy' / Andrew King -- 'Mylecharaine': a forgotten call to nationhood / Fenella Crowe Bazin -- The ballad singer and seller depicted in the works of William Hogarth / Andrew C. Rouse -- 'The Brown Girl' (Child 295B): a Baring-Gould concoction? / Steve Gardham -- 'Spencer the Rover': an old soldier? / Simon Furey -- Joseph Taylor from Lincolnshire: a biography of a singer / Ruairidh Greig -- Bell Duncan: 'The greatest ballad singer of all time'? / Julia C. Bishop -- Sam Howard and the east Norfolk singing tradition, 1919-1936 / Christopher Heppa -- A matriarch of song: Belle Stewart, 'The Queen Amang the Heather' / Sheila Douglas -- A study of tongch'ojesinging style in Korean narrative song, p'ansori / Yeonok Jang -- Clyde Covill: reconstructing a community tradition / Jennifer C. Post -- Songs from under the Flightpath: environmental protest song in context / Simon Heywood

Papers from the 10-12 July 1998 conference in Sheffield co sponsored by EFDSS and NATCECT

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