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Folk Music Journal: Volume 5 Number 4

Volume 5 Number 4 (1988) contains the following pieces:

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Articles

Vic Gammon, Singing and Popular Funeral Practices in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

John Forrest, Who Calls the Tune? New Methods for Exploring the Relationships between Dances and their Music

Ian Spring, Why did 'the Bridegroom Greet'?

Note

Ray Cowell, Kidson's Informants

Correspondence

Cyril Tawney, How Can I Keep from Singing and Carry it On!

Reviews — Books

Neil V Rosenberg Everyday Culture: Popular Song and the Vernacular Milieu, edited by Michael Pickering and Tony Green
George P S
Peterson
Peter Cooke, The Fiddle Tradition of the Shetland Isles
Jon Raven Cyril Tawney, Grey Funnel Lines: Traditional Song and Verse of the Royal Navy 1900-1970
Vic Gammon German 'Volkskunde': A Decade of Theoretical Confrontation, Debate and Reorientation (1967-1977), edited by James R Dow and Hannjost Lixfeld
Roy Palmer The Pepys Ballads, edited by W G Day
Leslie ShepardPeter W Carnell, Broadside Ballads and Song-Sheets from the Hewins MSS Collection in Sheffield University University Library: A Descriptive Catalogue with Indexes and Notes
Keith Gregson Songs from the Manuscript Collection of John Bell, edited by D I Harker
Georgina Boyes Birgit Kjellström and others, 'Folkmusicvågen': The Folk Music Vogue, and accompanying cassette
Theresa Buckland   Colin Quigley, Close to the Floor: Folk Dance in Newfoundland
Helen Myers Judith Vander, Ghost Dance Songs and Religion of a Wind River Shoshone Woman
Michael Heaney David Underdown, Revel, Riot, and Rebellion: Popular Politics and Culture in England 1603-1660
Anthony Bennett Dave Russell, Popular Music in England, 1840-1914: A Social History
Michael Pickering Paul Oliver, Max Harrison and William Bolcom, The New Grove: Gospel, Blues and Jazz with Spirituals and Ragtime

Reviews — Periodical

Peter Robson   Roomer, Vols 1-6, edited by Steve Roud and Paul Smith

Reviews — Records and Cassettes

Ian Russell   The Copper Family, Coppersongs: A Living Tradition
Reg Hall  Early in the Month of Spring: Songs and a Story from Irish Travellers in England
Keith Summers  We Singers Make Bold and A Song for the Time: Village Carols from the Black Bull, Ecclesfield

Obituary

Roy Judge and Derek  
Schofield (editors)
A Tribute to Douglas Neil Kennedy, OBE, 1893-1988
Roy Palmer   Harry Boardman 1930-1987
John Kaneen   Mona Douglas, MBE, 1898-1987
Reg Hall   Mervyn Plunkett 1920-1986

Notes on Contributors

Cover illustration: Douglas Neil Kennedy, OBE, 1893-1988. Photograph from the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library

Editor: Dr Ian Russell

Assistant Editor: Dr Roy Judge

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