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Collectomania! Revisiting the Folk Song Collectors
Edited by Steve Roud and David Atkinson ISBN 978-1-0686406-2-9 £15.00 (+£3.20 p+p). For overseas postage please contact us before paying 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, Continue reading
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Outlandish Knights: Essays in the Aesthetics of Ballads and Folk Songs
Selected papers from the 2018 Folk Song Conference, held at Cecil Sharp House, London. Continue reading
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Old Songs, New Discoveries
Selected papers from the 2018 Folk Song Conference, held at Cecil Sharp House, London. Continue reading
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Street Literature and the Circulation of Songs
Papers exploring the production, distribution and use of street literature, including broadside ballads, chapbooks and other cheap printed items. Continue reading
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Printers, Pedlars, Sailors, Nuns: Aspects of Street Literature
The second volume of selected papers drawing on research gathered and presented at The Broadside Day. Continue reading
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The Forgotten Songs of the Upper Thames: Folk Songs from the Alfred Williams Collection
The third volume of selected papers drawing on research gathered and presented at The Broadside Day. Continue reading
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A Notorious Chaunter in B Flat and Other Characters in Street Literature
The third volume of selected papers drawing on research gathered and presented at The Broadside Day. Continue reading
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Thirsty Work and Other Legacies of Folk Song
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… Continue reading
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Vaughan Williams and Folk: 150th Anniversary Essays
A selection of essays celebrating Ralph Vaughan Williams’ lifelong involvement with British folk song and music, as collector, editor, arranger, and composer. Many of them were first presented at the EFDSS’ conference 2022. Continue reading
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Cecil Sharp and the Quest for Folk Song and Dance: a New Biography
By David Sutcliffe Pbk. 497pp. ISBN 978-1-9161424-7-3 Special Ballad Partners price: £20 (+ £3.50 p+p) For overseas postage please contact us before paying. Cecil Sharp (1859-1924) was the leading collector of folk song and dance in England in the Edwardian period, a major figure in the English Music Renaissance movement of the time, and a Continue reading
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