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Folk Music of Britain - and Beyond (Paperback)
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Folk Music of Britain - and Beyond (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Folk Music
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Originally published in 1969. Until the latter half of the
nineteenth century, it was thought that England, alone among the
European countries, and unlike Scotland and Ireland where
collections of ballads and songs had already been published as
early as the eighteenth century, had no important native tradition
of music. The founding of the (English) Folk-Song Society in 1898,
however, and the pioneering work of such collectors as Lucy
Broadwood, the Reverend S. Baring-Gould and, later, Cecil Sharp
uncovered a still flourishing folk culture. Since then interest in
this subject has grown steadily, and the bibliography of
publications of actual folk-songs and ballads is now huge. Frank
Howes sets out a general and scholarly introduction, first
examining in detail the history and origins of folk music and going
on to show the nature and vast amount of the material, enforcing
his arguments with a wealth of examples from around the world. His
discussion of the differences of national idiom leads on to a
comparison of British folk music with that of other European
countries and America, in which he pays due attention to the Celtic
and Norse traditions. Separate sections on balladry, carols, street
cries, broadsides, sea shanties, nursery rhymes and instruments
illustrate both the variety of folk music and the extent to which
it permeates our national heritage.
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