Edited by Steve Roud and David Atkinson
ISBN: 978-1-9161424-5-9
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The third in a series of collections of folk song studies, the previous two being The Proceedings of the English Folk Dance and Song Society Song Conference 2013 (CAMSCO, 2015), and Old Songs, New Discoveries: Selected Papers from the 2018 Folk Song Conference (The Ballad Partners, 2019). This volume includes revised versions of papers that were initially presented online under the auspices of the Traditional Song Forum.
Book Contents
- Thirsty Work: Traditional Singing on BBC Radio, 1940 – 41; Katie Howson
- From Tyneside to Wearside: In Search of Sunderland Songs; Eileen Richardson
- Sam Bennet’s Songs; Elaine Bradtke
- Newman and Company of Dartmouth and the Song Tradition of Newfoundland’s South Coast; Anna Kearney Guigné
- Railwaymen’s Charity Concerts, 1888 – 89; Colin Bargery
- Picturing Protest: Prints to Accompany Political Songs; Patience Young
- ‘This is all the explanation I am at liberty to give in print’: Richard Runciman Terry and Songs from the Sea; Keith Gregson
- Drawing from the Well: Emma Dusenbury and her Old Songs of the Ozarks; Eleanor Rodes
- Alexander Campbell’s Song Collecting Tour: ‘The Classic Ground of our Celtic Homer’; Karen E. McAulay
- ‘Don’t let us be strangers’: William Montgomerie’s Fieldwork Recordings of Scottish Farmworkers, 1952; Margaret Bennet
- ‘No Maid in History’s Pages’: The Female Rebel Hero in the Irish Ballad Tradition; Thérèse McIntyre
- Who is Speaking in Songs? David Atkinson
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