The Ballad Partners

Edited by David Atkinson and Steve Roud 

ISBN 978-1-0686406-0-5

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The fourth in our series of new essays on aspects of street literature, based on papers presented at the Traditional Song Forum’s annual Broadside Day conference.

Book Contents

• Singing that Ancient Doggerel about ‘Jinny the Witch’: Hollantide Eve Songs from the Isle of Man; Stephen Miller
• New Year’s Eve Carol Singing in West Lancashire; Peter Bearon
• The Enduring Textual Structures of Hunting Songs; Mary Emmett
• The Fuller Sisters in America; Michael J. Bell
• Alfred Wiliams’s Surviving Notebook; Richard Spencer
• Framing the Collectors: The Collector–Singer Relationship in Historical and Comparative Perspective; Hugh Miller and Paul Mansfield
• Folk Song and the Metaphysics of Canon Formation; David Atkinson
• Harry Clifton and Harry Lauder – Their Impact on the Folk Repertoire; John Baxter
• Felix McGlennon – Manufacturing First-Class Songs; John Baxter
• Folk Song, Self-Realization, and the Measure of Authenticity; David Atkinson