Recently added articles from Folk Music Journal:
Editorial
Jan 01, 2009; ... This issue includes three very substantial articles. Linda-May Ballard's subject is a personal one, in the sense that Isabella McBride, the Northern Irish singer whom she has recorded and studied, was her own grandmother. Her article probes the informant's social context in order to explore ...
The North of England Musical Tournament: History of the Sword Dance Competition Trophies
Jan 01, 2009; ... An aspect of the sword dance competition held in conjunction with the North of England Musical Tournament that has not received attention in the journal is the history of the challenge cups themselves. The first cup, presented to the tournament by Miss Jane Cowen in 1921, was pictured in the ...
Desire, Drink and Death in English Folk and Vernacular Song, 1600-1900
Jan 01, 2009; ... Desire, Drink and Death in English Folk and Vernacular Song, 1600-1900 Vic Gammon. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. xvii + 264 pp. Mus. Music. Indexes. ISBN 978-0-7546-6094-1. £50. Ashgate Publishing are quietly cornering the market in academic works on traditional music and ...
Folk Music: The Basics
Jan 01, 2009; ... Folk Music: The Basics Ronald D. Cohen. New York and London: Routledge, 2006. viii + 253 pp. Bibliog. Discog. Index. ISBN 0 415 971260 8. It is not easy to write an introductory text for a complex and unwieldy subject such as folk music, especially if the remit is to include both Britain ...
Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain
Jan 01, 2009; ... Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain Michael Pickering. Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. 270 pp. Illus. Bibliog. Index. ISBN 978-0-7546-5859-7. £50.00. This book has been more than twenty years in the making, and the impressive weight of ...
The Dance Music of Séamus Ennis
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Dance Music of Séamus Ennis Pat Mitchell. Dublin: Na Píobairí Uilleann, 2007. Music. Index of tune titles. 480 pp. ISBN 978-0-9509743-6-1. euro60.00. This is a weighty collection of 179 transcriptions of tunes played on the uilleann pipes (and a few on whistle) by Séamus Ennis ...
A Florida Fiddler: The Life and Times of Richard Seaman
Jan 01, 2009; ... A Florida Fiddler: The Life and Times of Richard Seaman Gregory Hansen. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007· x + 254 pp. Illus. Music. Bibliog. Discog. ISBN 9780-0-8173-1553-5. $45 This is not just a biography of a traditional fiddle player. It is a chronicle of the ...
The Fiddle in Scottish Culture: Aspects of the Tradition
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Fiddle in Scottish Culture: Aspects of the Tradition Katherine Campbell. Edinburgh: John Donald, 2007. xix + 204 pp. Illus. Bibliog. ISBN 978-1-904607-70-0. £20.00. Much has been written and published on the Scottish fiddle playing and dance traditions, although, given the most ...
Dear Far-Voiced Veteran: Essays in Honour of Tom Munnelly
Jan 01, 2009; ... Dear Far-Voiced Veteran: Essays in Honour of Tom Munnelly Ed. by Anne Clune. Miltown Malbay, County Clare: Old Kilfarboy Society, 2007. x + 404 pp. Illus. Music. Bibliog. ISBN 978-0-9556037-0-9. euro38.00. <www.oac.ie> This has inevitably turned out to be a memorial volume, issued ...
Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon: The Call of the Popular from the Restoration to the New Criticism
Jan 01, 2009; ... Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon: The Call of the Popular from the Restoration to the New Criticism Steve Newman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. 294 pp. Bibliog. Index. ISBN 978-0-8122-4009-2. US$65.00 £42.50. The topic of this book is initially elusive; or ...
Isabella McBride - Traditional Singer
Jan 01, 2009; ... Towards the end of her life, Isabella McBride recorded a selection of folk songs learned in childhood, together with reminiscences of the way in which the songs had been learned. While she occasionally sang the songs in intimate domestic settings, she had not sung them on social occasions for ...
The Glenbuchat Ballads
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Glenbuchat Ballads Compiled by the Revd Robert Scott. Ed. by David Buchan and James Moreira. [Jackson]: University Press of Mississippi in association with the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, 2007. lxxiv + 274 pp. Glossary. Bibliog. Indexes. ISBN 978-1-57806-972-9 ....
Prophet Singer: The Voice and Vision of Woody Guthrie
Jan 01, 2009; ... Prophet Singer: The Voice and Vision of Woody Guthrie Mark Alan Jackson. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007- x + 307 pp. Illus. Index. ISBN 978-1-57806-915-6. US$50.00. Mark Jackson's Prophet Singer sets out to discuss the cultural and political significance of Woody ...
James Hogg: A Bard of Nature's Making
Jan 01, 2009; ... James Hogg: A Bard of Nature's Making Valentina Bold. Studies in the History and Culture of Scotland, Vol. 1. Bern: Peter Lang, 2007. 376 pp. Illus. Bibliog. Index. ISBN 978-3-03910-897-8. ISSN 1661-6863. £43.00. euro66.20. US$85.95. James Hogg: A Bard of Nature's Making is essentially a ...
Three Extraordinary Collections: Early 18th Century Dance Music for Those that Play Publick
Jan 01, 2009; ... Three Extraordinary Collections: Early 18th Century Dance Music for Those that Play Publick Ed. by Pete Stewart. Pencaitland: Hornpipe Music, 2007118 pp. Music. Illus. £17-50. <www.hornpipemusic.co.uk>. This is a modern edition of three important collections of eighteenth-century ...
Protest Song in East and West Germany since the 1960s
Jan 01, 2009; ... Protest Song in East and West Germany since the 1960s Ed. by David Robb. Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture, Vol. 12. Rochester, NY Camden House, 2007- 320 pp. Bibliog. Index. ISBN 978-1-57113-281-9. £45.00. $75.00. Protest Song in East and West Germany provides a ...
'That Chief Undercurrent of My Mind': Percy Grainger and the Aesthetics of English Folk Song
Jan 01, 2009; ... Exactly a century after its publication, Percy Grainger's article 'Collecting with the Phonograph' stands as a towering monument to his dedication to English folk song and to his insight into the subtle performance practices of its performers. Yet Grainger's role in the history of English folk ...
Shakespeare's Songbook
Jan 01, 2009; ... Shakespeare's Songbook Ross W. Duffin. Foreword by Stephen Orgel. New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2004. 528 pp. Music. Illus. Bibliog. Indexes. Integral CD. ISBN 0-393-05889-1. US$39.95. £27.99. I once stayed with a very kindly woman while working at a distance from my home. She not ...
Hamish Henderson: A Biography. Vol. 1: The Making of the Poet (1919-1953)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Hamish Henderson: A Biography. Vol. 1: The Making of the Poet (1919-1953) Timothy Neat. Edinburgh: Polygon, 2007. 375 pp. Illus. Index. ISBN 978 1 904598 47 3. £25.00. This is a longish book, and it has longueurs. Quotations are often unduly lavish, and detail is excessive: for example, ...
The Romantics and the May Day Tradition
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Romantics and the May Day Tradition Essaka Joshua. The Nineteenth Century. Adershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. 164 pp. Illus. Bibliog. Index. ISBN 978-0-7546-5774-3. £45.00. US$89.95. In 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge essayed a short account in his new publishing venture, The ...