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Folk Music Journal: Volume 6 Number 1

Volume 6 Number 1 (1990) contains the following pieces:

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Articles

James C Brickwedde, A Claud Wright: Cecil Sharp's Forgotten Dancer

Michael Pickering, Recent Folk Music Scholarship in England: A Critique

J S Bratton, Dancing a Hornpipe in Fetters

Correspondence

The Michaelis-Jena Ratcliff Prize

Reviews — Books

Julia C Bishop   The Traditional Music of Britain and Ireland: A Select Bibliography and Research Guide (James Porter)
Sabine Wienker-Piepho Warrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650-1850 (Dianne Dugaw)
Ian Russell The Hidden Musicians: Music Making in an English Town (Ruth Finnegan)
Colin Neilands Belfast: City of Song (Maurice Leyden)
Dave Harker The Jacobite Song: Political Myth and National Identity (William Donaldson)
Stephanie D L SmithThe Book of Sandy Steward (Roger Leitch)
Clap Hands for the Singing Molecatcher: Scenes from a Scottish Childhood (Roderick Grant)
Hamish Henderson   Recollections of a Donegal Man (Packie Byrne)
Roy Judge The Hidden Culture: Folklore in Australian Society (Graham Seal)
Barry M Weinberg Chosen Voices: The Story of the American Cantorate (Mark Slobin)
Irén Kertész-Wilkinson   Votyak Folksongs (László Vikár and Gábor Bereczki)
Ruth Finnegan Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression (Stephen Feld)
Frances Taylor The Early Mandolin: The Mandolino and the Neapolitan Mandoline (James Tyler and Paul Sparks)
Richard Blaustein 'My Song is my Weapon': People's Songs, American Communism, and the Politics of Culture, 1930-50 (Robbie Lieberman)
David K Dunaway When the Music's Over: The Story of Political Pop (Robin Denselow)
Ian Russell The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music (Stanley Sadie)
The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Donald Clarke)
The Cambridge Music Guide (Stanley Sadie)

Review — Periodicals

Graham Seal Talking Folklore (British Folk Studies Forum)
Gordon Ashman   Australian Folklore (Centre for Australian Studies)

Reviews — Sound Recordings

Keith Chandler Arise, Rejoice and Sing! Village Carols from the Blue Ball Inn, Worrall (Village Carols)
While Shepherds Watched: Village Carols from the Fountain, Ingbirchworth (Village Carols)
'Rouse Rouse': Traditional Christmas Carols from Padstow in Cornwall (Veteran Tapes)
Steve RoudA Dartmoor Country Dance Party (Bob Cann and the Pixie Band)
Five Generations: The Music and Songs of a Dartmoor Family (Bob Cann and Mark Bazeley)
Graeme Kirkham   Down Around Bowmantown: A Portrait of a Musical Community in Northeast Tennessee — Then and Now (Now and Then Records)
Carole PeggMusics of the Soviet Union (Smithsonian/Folkways)

Obituary

Pat MacKenzie and Jim Carroll   Ewan MacColl 1915-1989
George WallaceFreddy Forster 1919-1989
Eleanor R Long-WilgusD K Wilgus 1918-1989
Annette SangerJohn Blacking 1928-1990

Cover illustration: Ewan MacColl at the Singers Club, London, August 1988. Photograph by Brian Shuel.

Editor: Dr Ian Russell

Assistant Editor: Dr Roy Judge

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