Originally published in 1980. Song is perhaps the strongest form of
traditional culture. Its vigour and energy represent the power of
the community from which it springs. This book focuses on
traditional singing in two small English villages. It studies in
detail an activity which goes to the core of the communal life in
any village and demonstrates how song becomes the lifeblood of the
traditions of rural life. In many ways traditional singing is
highly subversive because its practice is an affirmation of
community and a denial of the fragmentation of modern society. The
songs sung, those remembered, the singers now dead whose lives are
recalled each time an old favourite is performed, all connect the
present with the past. The primary aesthetic concern within these
singing traditions is that a man should sing, whatever the
objective quality of his performance; and a song should tell a good
story. The individual singer assumes a special role in performance
since he becomes spokesman for a group and gives voice not only to
personal but also to social concerns, dynamics and emotions.
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