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Folk Song in England (Paperback, Main)
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Folk Song in England (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R491
Discovery Miles 4 910
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Longlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize England was once
dubbed 'the land without music', but in the early twentieth century
collectors and enthusiasts such as Cecil Sharp, Ralph Vaughan
Williams and Percy Grainger discovered a vital heritage of folk
song, vibrant and alive among working men and women. Yet after more
than a century of collecting, publishing and performing songs,
there are still many things we don't know about England's
traditional music. Where did the songs come from? Who sang them,
and where, when and why? Why did some songs thrive, and did the
collectors' passions and prejudices determine what was preserved,
and what was lost? In answer to these questions, acclaimed
folklorist Steve Roud has drawn on an unprecedented range of
sources to present an intricate social history of folk song through
the ages, from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century. It is
an absorbing and impeccably researched account that gives a
sonorous voice to England's past.
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