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Originally published in 1977. The Travellers, from those living in
bow-tents and horse-drawn caravans to those dwelling in motor
caravans and permanent homes, are an important source of
traditional music. Their society means that songs that have died
out in more settled communities are preserved among them. Ewan
MacColl and Peggy Seeger, widely known as two of the founding
singers of the British and American folk revivals, here display a
vast fund of folklore scholarship around the songs of British
travelling people. Resulting from extensive collecting in southern
and southeastern England and central and northeastern Scotland in
the 1960s and 70s, this book contains 130 songs with music and
comprehensive notes relating them to folkloristic and historical
points of interest. It includes traditional ballads and ballads of
broadside origin, bawdy, tragic and humorous songs about love, work
and death. Most are in English or in Scots dialect with four in
Anglo-Romani.
Originally published in 1977. The Travellers, from those living in
bow-tents and horse-drawn caravans to those dwelling in motor
caravans and permanent homes, are an important source of
traditional music. Their society means that songs that have died
out in more settled communities are preserved among them. Ewan
MacColl and Peggy Seeger, widely known as two of the founding
singers of the British and American folk revivals, here display a
vast fund of folklore scholarship around the songs of British
travelling people. Resulting from extensive collecting in southern
and southeastern England and central and northeastern Scotland in
the 1960s and 70s, this book contains 130 songs with music and
comprehensive notes relating them to folkloristic and historical
points of interest. It includes traditional ballads and ballads of
broadside origin, bawdy, tragic and humorous songs about love, work
and death. Most are in English or in Scots dialect with four in
Anglo-Romani.
First published in 1985, this book examines how workers theatre
movements intended their performances to be activist - perceiving
art as a weapon of struggle and enlightenment - and an emancipatory
act. An introductory study relates left-wing theatre groupings to
the cultural narratives of contemporary British socialism. The
progress of the Workers' Theatre Movement (1928-1935) is traced
from simple realism to the most brilliant phase of its Russian and
German development alongside which the parallel movements in the
United States are also examined. A number of crucial texts are
reprints as well as stage notes and glimpses of the dramaturgical
controversies which accompanied them.
First published in 1985, this book examines how workers theatre
movements intended their performances to be activist - perceiving
art as a weapon of struggle and enlightenment - and an emancipatory
act. An introductory study relates left-wing theatre groupings to
the cultural narratives of contemporary British socialism. The
progress of the Workers' Theatre Movement (1928-1935) is traced
from simple realism to the most brilliant phase of its Russian and
German development alongside which the parallel movements in the
United States are also examined. A number of crucial texts are
reprints as well as stage notes and glimpses of the dramaturgical
controversies which accompanied them.
This new edition of "Journeyman," Ewan MacColl's vivid and
entertaining autobiography, has been re-edited from the original
manuscript, and includes a new introduction by Peggy Seeger, for
whom he wrote the unforgettable "The First Time Ever I Saw Your
Face." MacColl, a singer, songwriter, actor, playwright and
broadcaster, begins this fascinating account with his working class
Salford childhood, traces the founding and life of Theatre
Workshop, one of Britain's most innovative theatre companies, then
moves on to his work with folksingers, the Radio Ballads and his
ascent into old age. Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger were among the
main leaders of the UK folksong revival. "Journeyman" documents
their struggle to secure the integrity of that revival as the
popular media appropriated and re-created traditional music for
commercial gain. An entertaining and thought-provoking slice of
British history, it will appeal to those interested in the
histories of folk music, theatre, radio, left-wing politics and the
Manchester area.
This new edition of "Journeyman," Ewan MacColl's vivid and
entertaining autobiography, has been re-edited from the original
manuscript, and includes a new introduction by Peggy Seeger, for
whom he wrote the unforgettable "The First Time Ever I Saw Your
Face." MacColl, a singer, songwriter, actor, playwright and
broadcaster, begins this fascinating account with his working class
Salford childhood, traces the founding and life of Theatre
Workshop, one of Britain's most innovative theatre companies, then
moves on to his work with folksingers, the Radio Ballads and his
ascent into old age. Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger were among the
main leaders of the UK folksong revival. "Journeyman" documents
their struggle to secure the integrity of that revival as the
popular media appropriated and re-created traditional music for
commercial gain. An entertaining and thought-provoking slice of
British history, it will appeal to those interested in the
histories of folk music, theatre, radio, left-wing politics and the
Manchester area.
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