Time and Place: In Pursuit of Folk Songs

(Folk Song Papers No.6)

Edited by Steve Roud & David Atkinson

ISBN 978-1-0686406-9-8

196pp.

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Another wide-ranging collection of papers on aspects of Folk Song study – from England, Ireland, Scotland, USA and Portugal – reflecting the exciting diversity of approaches in the field today.

Contents
  • In Search of Andrew Rose – An Orkney Song, but not an Orkney Sailor by Amanda MacLean 
  • ‘The Foggy Dew’ of Easter 1916 by Laurence Bond 
  • Insulation against Modernity: The Traveller Singing Tradition by Caroline Macafee 
  • ‘Phippsburg Town’s in Sagadahoc’: Local Songs and Types of Place Attachment  by Hilary Warner-Evans 
  • ‘Cockles and Mussels’: From Music Hall to Folk Song by Terry Moylan 
  • Searching for Home: Women, Place, and Belonging in Traditional Irish Songs by Kara Shea O’Brien 
  • Two Friends and a Car Called Cecil: Helen Creighton and Doreen Senior by Martin Graebe 
  • Performers with a capital ‘P’? Traditional Singers, Performance Styles, and Contexts by Paul Mansfield 
  • William Colcombe and the Song Collectors by Richard Spencer 
  • The Parson and the Professor by Martin Graebe 
  • Percy, Child, and the Broadsides by David Atkinson 
  • The Digital Archive of Traditional Oral Literature at the University of Lisbon by Ana Maria Paiva Morão