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The Late Victorian Folksong Revival
The Persistence of English Melody, 1878-1903
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2010
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In The Late Victorian Folksong Revival: The Persistence of English Melody, 1878-1903, E. David Gregory provides a reliable and comprehensive history of the birth and early development of the first English folksong revival. Continuing where Victorian Songhunters, his first book, left off, Gregory systematically explores what the Late Victorian folksong collectors discovered in the field and what they published for posterity, identifying differences between the songs noted from oral tradition and those published in print. In doing so, he determines the extent to which the collectors distorted what they found when publishing the results of their research in an era when some folksong texts were deemed unsuitable for "polite ears."
The book provides a reliable overall survey of the birth of a movement, tracing the genesis and development of the first English folksong revival. It discusses the work of more than a dozen song-collectors, focusing in particular on three key figures: the pioneer folklorist in the English west country, Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould; Frank Kidson, who greatly increased the known corpus of Yorkshire song; and Lucy Broadwood, who collected mainly in the counties of Sussex and Surrey, and with Kidson and others, was instrumental in founding the Folk Song Society in the late 1890s. The book includes copious examples of the song tunes and texts collected, including transcriptions of nearly 300 traditional ballads, broadside ballads, folk lyrics, occupational songs, carols, shanties, and "national songs," demonstrating the abundance and high quality of the songs recovered by these early collectors.
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-6988-2
ISBN-Online
978-0-8108-6989-9
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
583
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Preface No access
1: The Concept of Folksong No access
2: Legacies from the Past No access
3: Prelude: England in the 1880s No access
4: Stirrings in the North No access
5: Village Singers and Gypsies No access
6: Songs of the Sea No access
7: Western Pioneer: Sabine Baring-Gould No access
8: Northern Pioneer: Frank Kidson No access
9: Interlude: England in the 1890s No access
10: Birth of a Movement, 1890-92 No access
11: Lucy Broadwood and English County Songs No access
12: The Revival of National Song No access
13: Sabine Baring-Gould in the 1890s No access
14: Frank Kidson in the 1890s No access
15: National Song as Minstrelsy No access
16: Birth of the Folk-Song Society No access
17: Epilogue and Conclusions No access
Appendix: Alphabetical Song List No access Pages 543 - 550
Bibliography No access Pages 551 - 564
Index No access Pages 565 - 582
About the Author No access Pages 583 - 583
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