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The Routledge companion to English folk performance / edited by Peter Harrop and Steve Roud.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Routledge, 2021.Description: 596 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780367279929 (hbk)
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Contents:
Introduction / Peter Harrop & Steve Roud -- Part l: Folk drama, theatre and performance; Part l Introduction / Peter Harrop -- Towards an anatomy of English customary drama: theatre, stage, play / Thomas Pettitt.-- Performing calendrical pressures: Shrovetide processions and shroving perambulations in premodern England / Taylor Aucoin.-- Robin Hood folk-performance in fifteenth and sixteenth-century England / John Marshall -- Alongside the mummers’ plays: customary elements in amateur and semi-professional theatre 1730–1850 / Peter Harrop -- The Alderley mummers’ play: a story of longevity / Duncan Broomhead -- A performance bestiary / Mike Pearson -- Performing community: village life and the spectacle of worship in the work of Charles Marson / Katie Palmer Heathman -- Boxing Day fancy dress in Wigan / Anna F C Smith -- Part ll: Folk dance; Part ll Introduction / Peter Harrop -- Merry neets and bridewains: contemporary commentaries on folk music, dance, and song in the Lake counties during the Romantic period / Sue Allan -- Sword dancing in England: texts and sources from the eighteenth and nineteenth Centuries / Stephen D Corrsin -- From country gardens to British festivals: the morris dance revival, 1886–1951 / Matt Simons -- The English country dance, Cecil Sharp and authenticity / Derek Schofield -- Douglas Kennedy and folk dance in English schools / Chloe Middleton-Metcalfe -- Fancy footwork: Reviewing the English clog and step dance revival / Alex Fisher -- Expanding a repertoire: Leicester Morrismen and the Border morris / John Swift -- Dancing with tradition: clog, step and short sword rapper in the twenty first century / Libby Worth -- ‘Sequins, bows and pointed toes’: girls' carnival morris; the ‘other’ morris dancing community / Lucy Wright -- Part lll: Folk song and music; Part lll Introduction / Steve Roud -- Recrafting love and murder: print and memory in the mediation of a murdered sweetheart ballad / Thomas Pettitt -- Burlesquing the ballad / Steve Gardham -- The rise and fall of the west gallery: popular religious music in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Vic Gammon -- The drive for English identity in music and the foundation of the Folk-Song Society / Arthur Knevett -- ‘No Art More Dangerous’: Eve Maxwell-Lyte and folk song / Martin Graebe -- Creativity versus authenticity in the English folksong revival / Brian Peters -- Folk choirs: their origins and contribution to the living tradition / Paul Wilson & Marilyn Tucker -- ‘Past performances on paper’: a case study of the manuscript tunebook of Thomas Hampton / Rebecca Dellow -- The performers in the playground: children’s musical practices in play / Julia Bishop.

Introduction / Peter Harrop & Steve Roud -- Part l: Folk drama, theatre and performance; Part l Introduction / Peter Harrop -- Towards an anatomy of English customary drama: theatre, stage, play / Thomas Pettitt.-- Performing calendrical pressures: Shrovetide processions and shroving perambulations in premodern England / Taylor Aucoin.-- Robin Hood folk-performance in fifteenth and sixteenth-century England / John Marshall -- Alongside the mummers’ plays: customary elements in amateur and semi-professional theatre 1730–1850 / Peter Harrop -- The Alderley mummers’ play: a story of longevity / Duncan Broomhead -- A performance bestiary / Mike Pearson -- Performing community: village life and the spectacle of worship in the work of Charles Marson / Katie Palmer Heathman -- Boxing Day fancy dress in Wigan / Anna F C Smith -- Part ll: Folk dance; Part ll Introduction / Peter Harrop -- Merry neets and bridewains: contemporary commentaries on folk music, dance, and song in the Lake counties during the Romantic period / Sue Allan -- Sword dancing in England: texts and sources from the eighteenth and nineteenth Centuries / Stephen D Corrsin -- From country gardens to British festivals: the morris dance revival, 1886–1951 / Matt Simons -- The English country dance, Cecil Sharp and authenticity / Derek Schofield -- Douglas Kennedy and folk dance in English schools / Chloe Middleton-Metcalfe -- Fancy footwork: Reviewing the English clog and step dance revival / Alex Fisher -- Expanding a repertoire: Leicester Morrismen and the Border morris / John Swift -- Dancing with tradition: clog, step and short sword rapper in the twenty first century / Libby Worth -- ‘Sequins, bows and pointed toes’: girls' carnival morris; the ‘other’ morris dancing community / Lucy Wright -- Part lll: Folk song and music; Part lll Introduction / Steve Roud -- Recrafting love and murder: print and memory in the mediation of a murdered sweetheart ballad / Thomas Pettitt -- Burlesquing the ballad / Steve Gardham -- The rise and fall of the west gallery: popular religious music in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Vic Gammon -- The drive for English identity in music and the foundation of the Folk-Song Society / Arthur Knevett -- ‘No Art More Dangerous’: Eve Maxwell-Lyte and folk song / Martin Graebe -- Creativity versus authenticity in the English folksong revival / Brian Peters -- Folk choirs: their origins and contribution to the living tradition / Paul Wilson & Marilyn Tucker -- ‘Past performances on paper’: a case study of the manuscript tunebook of Thomas Hampton / Rebecca Dellow -- The performers in the playground: children’s musical practices in play / Julia Bishop.

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