A new book, The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance edited by Peter Harrop and Steve Roud, is to be published shortly. You can find more details HERE. It has to be admitted that the listed price is very high at £200, but if you must have it, they are currently offering it in their ‘Summer Sale’ at just £160. … Read more
Nick Dow has written to tell me that a new selection of 100 songs from the Hammond and Gardiner manuscripts has now been published by Francis Boutle. It is called Southern Songster. Musical notation has been provided by Cohen Braithwaite Kilcoyne, and there are extensive song notes by Steve Gardham. There is also a small selection … Read more
A new book on Robert Anderson, the Balladeer of Carlisle will be launched next weekend. This is from the keyboard of Sue Allan, and you can buy the book at https://www.bookscumbria.com/product/cumbrian-books/arts-and-literature/performing-arts/the-cumberland-bard-robert-anderson-of-carlisle-1770-1833/ .
On 22 February Lewis Jones put out a short message on Tradsong to say that the 1905 edition of Sabine Baring-Gould’s Songs of the West had been published on the Project Gutenberg website – http://www.gutenberg.org/files/56625/56625-h/56625-h.htm. I have also heard from Linda Cantoni who is a member of the project team who prepared the book for online publication. I … Read more
Traditional Song Forum members have been busy publishing new books, so here is a round-up. Faber has published Steve Roud’s mammoth (764 page) Folk Song in England – go to the Faber website for details. Best deal is at the Book Depository (an Amazon subsidiary) where you can get free postage to anywhere in the World. While the ink on that was … Read more
At the TSF meeting in Kings Lynn we heard about the visit of Ralph Vaughan Williams to the town in 1905. Alan Helsdon, who organised the meeting, has now released a digital book Vaughan Williams in Norfolk through Musical Traditions. This can still be downloaded from the Musical Traditions website: website.https://www.mustrad.org.uk/download/covers.htm [RS]
David Atkinson’s new book, The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contexts, has just been published by Open Book Publishers. You will find that it is available for purchase (at sensible prices) as a paperback, a hardback, as a PDF and in e-book formats. But you can also access an online edition free of charge – … Read more
Georgina Boyes let me know that the new edition of her book, The Imagined Village, is now available. Thislong-awaited revision of her influential book has some lovely illustrations as well as some other newmaterial. You can see details and buy the book at the No Masters website.
Talking of the Internet Archive on Archive.org, I discovered the other day that a new tranche of texts bySabine Baring-Gould has been added to the archive, bringing the total to 377 (though some areduplicates). One of the new texts is the 1891 edition of Songs and Ballads of the West’ – the first versionof the … Read more
Members may be interested to hear about a book recently published by the Essex Record Office tocelebrate the centenary of Vaughan Williams collecting in Essex. The book, called ‘That Precious Legacy’,has been written by Sue Cubbin and includes 30 songs as well as background on the singers and thecollection