The Late Victorian Folksong Revival - The Persistence of English Melody, 1878-1903 (Hardcover)

In The Late Victorian Folksong Revival: The Persistence of English Melody, 1878-1903, E. David Gregory provides a reliable and comprehensive history of the birth and early development of the first English folksong revival. Continuing where Victorian Songhunters, his first book, left off, Gregory systematically explores what the Late Victorian folksong collectors discovered in the field and what they published for posterity, identifying differences between the songs noted from oral tradition and those published in print. In doing so, he determines the extent to which the collectors distorted what they found when publishing the results of their research in an era when some folksong texts were deemed unsuitable for "polite ears." The book provides a reliable overall survey of the birth of a movement, tracing the genesis and development of the first English folksong revival. It discusses the work of more than a dozen song-collectors, focusing in particular on three key figures: the pioneer folklorist in the English west country, Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould; Frank Kidson, who greatly increased the known corpus of Yorkshire song; and Lucy Broadwood, who collected mainly in the counties of Sussex and Surrey, and with Kidson and others, was instrumental in founding the Folk Song Society in the late 1890s. The book includes copious examples of the song tunes and texts collected, including transcriptions of nearly 300 traditional ballads, broadside ballads, folk lyrics, occupational songs, carols, shanties, and "national songs," demonstrating the abundance and high quality of the songs recovered by these early collectors.

General

Imprint:	Scarecrow Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2010
First published:	May 2010
Authors:	E. David Gregory
Dimensions:	290 x 227 x 43mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	600
ISBN-13:	978-0-8108-6988-2
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Folk music Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900) Books > Music > Folk music Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900)
LSN:	0-8108-6988-8
Barcode:	9780810869882

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