The Ballad Partners

Edited by Steve Roud and David Atkinson

ISBN 978-1-0686406-2-9

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Contents

• Sabine Baring-Gould, 100 Years On by Martin Graebe
• ‘Not to bury Sharp, but to crucify him’: A Critical Appraisal of
• the Academic Assault on Cecil Sharp’s Politics by Brian Peters
• Anne Geddes Gilchrist: Folk Song Scholar and Collector by Peter Snape
• W. Percy Merrick: Pioneering Blind Folk Song Collector by Malcolm Barr-Hamilton
• ‘I’m the master and you’m the scholar’: Interaction, Context,and the Historiography of Song Collecting by Paul Mansfield and Hugh Miller
• ‘Your last proposal about music hunting sounds charming. We must think it over.’ Folk Song Collecting and Networking in the Isle of Man by Stephen Miller
• ‘Let Bangor lead the way in this truly great national movement’: J. Lloyd Williams, Collector, Campaigner, and his Canorion by Elen Wyn Keen
• ‘Genuine, but better variants known elsewhere’: Helen Creighton’s Nova Scotia Folk Song Collecting in Transatlantic Perspective by Chris Greencorn
• Weighing the Catch: Quantitative Analysis of Two Scottish Song Collections by Caroline Macafee
• Gwilym Davies: A Modern Approach to Folk Music Collecting by Carol Davies

Ten Papers from the major Collectomania conference organised by the Traditional Song Forum and the English Folk Dance and Song Society, held in London in 2024. Includes the two key-note speeches by Martin Graebe on Sabine Baring-Gould, and Brian Peters on Cecil Sharp.