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Total Pages : 500 pages
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Download or read book E.F.D.S. News written by and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Harrop
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000401596
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance written by Peter Harrop and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-12 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This broad-based collection of essays is an introduction both to the concerns of contemporary folklore scholarship and to the variety of forms that folk performance has taken throughout English history. Combining case studies of specific folk practices with discussion of the various different lenses through which they have been viewed since becoming the subject of concerted study in Victorian times, this book builds on the latest work in an ever-growing body of contemporary folklore scholarship. Many of the contributing scholars are also practicing performers and bring experience and understanding of performance to their analyses and critiques. Chapters range across the spectrum of folk song, music, drama and dance, but maintain a focus on the key defining characteristics of folk performance – custom and tradition – in a full range of performances, from carol singing and sword dancing to playground rhymes and mummers' plays. As well as being an essential reference for folklorists and scholars of traditional performance and local history, this is a valuable resource for readers in all disciplines of dance, drama, song and music whose work coincides with English folk traditions.
Author : Daniel J. Walkowitz
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479890359
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)
Download or read book City Folk written by Daniel J. Walkowitz and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-07-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of English Country Dance, from its 18th century roots in the English cities and countryside, to its transatlantic leap to the U.S. in the 20th century, told by not only a renowned historian but also a folk dancer, who has both immersed himself in the rich history of the folk tradition and rehearsed its steps. In City Folk, Daniel J. Walkowitz argues that the history of country and folk dancing in America is deeply intermeshed with that of political liberalism and the ‘old left.’ He situates folk dancing within surprisingly diverse contexts, from progressive era reform, and playground and school movements, to the changes in consumer culture, and the project of a modernizing, cosmopolitan middle class society. Tracing the spread of folk dancing, with particular emphases on English Country Dance, International Folk Dance, and Contra, Walkowitz connects the history of folk dance to social and international political influences in America. Through archival research, oral histories, and ethnography of dance communities, City Folk allows dancers and dancing bodies to speak. From the norms of the first half of the century, marked strongly by Anglo-Saxon traditions, to the Cold War nationalism of the post-war era, and finally on to the counterculture movements of the 1970s, City Folk injects the riveting history of folk dance in the middle of the story of modern America.
Author : Michael Heaney
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803274727
Total Pages : 747 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Ancient English Morris Dance written by Michael Heaney and published by Archaeopress Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 747 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that morris dancing captures the essence of ancient Englishness, inherently carefree and merry, has been present for over four hundred years. The Ancient English Morris Dance traces the history of those attitudes, from the dance's introduction to England in the fifteenth century, through the contention of the Reformation and Civil War, during which morris dancing and maypoles became potent symbols of the older ways of living. Thereafter it developed and diversified, neglected and disdained, until antiquaries began to take an interest in its history, leading to its re-invention as emblematic of Victorian concepts of Merrie England in the nineteenth century. The quest for authentic understanding of what that meant led to its revival at the beginning of the twentieth century, but that was predicated on the perception of it as part of England's declining rural past, to the neglect of the one area (the industrial north-west) where it continued to flourish. The revival led in turn to its further evolution into the multitude of forms and styles in which it may be encountered today.
Author : Patrick Wright
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1913462536
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (134 download)
Download or read book The Village That Died for England written by Patrick Wright and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reissue of Patrick Wright's 1995 classic about the military takeover of the village of Tyneham, with a new introduction taking in Brexit and a new wave of British nationalism. Shortly before Christmas in 1943, the British military announced they were taking over a remote valley on the Dorset coast and turning it into a firing range for tanks in preparation for D-Day. The residents of the village of Tyneham loyally packed up their things and filed out of their homes into temporary accommodation, yet Tyneham refused to die. Although it was never returned to its pre-war occupants and owners, Tyneham would persist through a long and extraordinary afterlife in the English imagination. It was said that Churchill himself had promised that the villagers would be able to return once the war was over, and that the post-war Labour government was responsible for the betrayal of that pledge. Both the accusation and the sense of grievance would reverberate through many decades after that. Back in print and with a brand new introduction, this book explores how Tyneham came to be converted into a symbol of posthumous England, a patriotic community betrayed by the alleged humiliations of post-war national history. Both celebrated and reviled at the time of its first publication in 1995, The Village that Died for England is indispensable reading for anyone trying to understand where Brexit came from — and where it might be leading us.
Author : Jacqueline Dillion
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137503203
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Thomas Hardy: Folklore and Resistance written by Jacqueline Dillion and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reassesses Hardy’s fiction in the light of his prolonged engagement with the folklore and traditions of rural England. Drawing on wide research, it demonstrates the pivotal role played in the novels by such customs and beliefs as ‘overlooking’, hag-riding, skimmington-riding, sympathetic magic, mumming, bonfire nights, May Day celebrations, Midsummer divination, and the ‘Portland Custom’. This study shows how such traditions were lived out in practice in village life, and how they were represented in written texts – in literature, newspapers, county histories, folklore books, the work of the Folklore Society, archival documents, and letters. It explores tensions between Hardy’s repeated insistence on the authenticity of his accounts and his engagement with contemporary anthropologists and folklorists, and reveals how his efforts to resist their ‘excellently neat’ categories of culture open up wider questions about the nature of belief, progress, and social change.
Author : Christopher Grogan
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843835991
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Imogen Holst written by Christopher Grogan and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2010 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extensively revised with new material, the book also includes a study of Imogen Hoist's music and a chronological list of her works, revealing her as a composer of tremendous talent, whose music deserves to be much more familiar.
Author : Steve Roud
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571309739
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)
Download or read book Folk Song in England written by Steve Roud and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Victorian times, England was famously dubbed the land without music - but one of the great musical discoveries of the early twentieth century was that England had a vital heritage of folk song and music which was easily good enough to stand comparison with those of other parts of Britain and overseas. Cecil Sharp, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Percy Grainger, and a number of other enthusiasts gathered a huge harvest of songs and tunes which we can study and enjoy at our leisure. But after over a century of collection and discussion, publication and performance, there are still many things we don't know about traditional song - Where did the songs come from? Who sang them, where, when and why? What part did singing play in the lives of the communities in which the songs thrived? More importantly, have the pioneer collectors' restricted definitions and narrow focus hindered or helped our understanding? This is the first book for many years to investigate the wider social history of traditional song in England, and draws on a wide range of sources to answer these questions and many more.
Author : Gavin Poynter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317637445
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book The London Olympics and Urban Development written by Gavin Poynter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As London sought to use the Olympics to achieve an ambitious programme of urban renewal in the relatively socially deprived East London it attracted global attention and sparked debate. This book provides an in-depth study of the transformation of East London as a result of the 2012 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. Government and event organisers use legacies of urban renewal to justify hosting the world’s leading sports mega-event, this book examines and evaluates those legacies. The London Olympics and Urban Development: the mega-event city is composed of new research, conducted by academics and policy makers. It combines case study analysis with conceptual insight into the role of a sports mega-events in transforming the city. It critically assesses the narrative of legacy as a framework for legitimizing urban changes and examines the use of this framework as a means of evaluating the outcomes achieved. This book is about that process of renewal, with a focus on the period following the 2012 Games and the diverse social, political and cultural implications of London’s use of the narrative of legacy.
Author : John Wagstaff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429802617
Total Pages : 1061 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book The British Union Catalogue of Music Periodicals written by John Wagstaff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 1061 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998, the aim of this catalogue is to help students, researchers and librarians determine the UK locations of over 2,000 music periodical titles held in public, academic and national libraries. Over 220 libraries in the UK have been surveyed, from St. Austell to Aberdeen, Aberystwyth to Brighton. Each catalogue entry provides detailed information on library holdings, and full bibliographic details of periodical titles, including ISSNs. The main catalogue is preceded by an address list, and by a preface outlining the history of music periodicals in Britain, together with statistical tables.
Author : Maud Karpeles
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571287042
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)
Download or read book Cecil Sharp written by Maud Karpeles and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Others came before and after him but no person is more strongly associated with the revival of English folk song and dance at the turn of the twentieth-century than Cecil Sharp (1859-1924). He collected about 5000 folk songs and nearly 500 dances. This prodigious achievement is told by someone who perhaps knew him better than anyone else. Maud Karpeles was his assistant for many years and accompanied him on his expeditions to the Southern Appalachian Mountains. This remains the definitive biography of the greatest figure in the English folk song and dance movement.
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book EFDS News written by and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1020 pages
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Download or read book The Gramophone written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Watson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521213103
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 5, Index written by George Watson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1977-06-16 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifty specialists have contributed to the new edition of volume 5 of the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
Author : Folklore Society (Great Britain)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 764 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Publications written by Folklore Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacqueline Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191578525
Total Pages : 1046 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of English Folklore written by Jacqueline Simpson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-09 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary is part of the Oxford Reference Collection: using sustainable print-on-demand technology to make the acclaimed backlist of the Oxford Reference programme perennially available in hardback format. An engrossing guide to English folklore and traditions, with over 1,250 entries. Folklore is connected to virtually every aspect of life, part of the country, age group, and occupation. From the bizarre to the seemingly mundane, it is as much a feature of the modern technological age as of the ancient world. BL Oral and Performance genres-Cheese rolling, Morris dancing, Well-dressingEL BL Superstitions-Charms, Rainbows, WishbonesEL BL Characters-Cinderella, Father Christmas, Robin Hood, Dick WhittingtonEL BL Supernatural Beliefs-Devil's hoofprints, Fairy rings, Frog showersEL BL Calendar Customs-April Fool's Day, Helston Furry Day, Valentine's DayEL
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Total Pages : 304 pages
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Download or read book Word-lore; the 'folk' Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
