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Folk Music Journal: Volume 6 Number 2

Volume 6 Number 2 (1991) contains the following pieces:

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Articles

Ailie Munro, The Role of the School of Scottish Studies in the Folk Music Revival

John Forrest and Michael Heaney, Charting Early Morris

Alun Howkins and Linda Merricks, The Ploughboy and the Plough Play

Colin Neilands, Irish Broadside Ballads: Performers and Performances

Note

E C Cawte, A Reminiscence of Cecil Sharp as Musician

Correspondence

Jeremy Barlow, J S Bratton, E C Cawte   'Dancing a Hornpipe in Fetters'
Gordon Ashman   'A Claud Wright: Cecil Sharp's Forgotten Dancer'

Reviews — Books

Hugh Anderson   'What a Lovely War!' British Soldiers' Songs from the Boer War to the Present Day (Roy Palmer)
Hugh Shields Sam Henry's Songs of the People (Gale Huntington and Lani Herrmann)
James Moreira The Ballad Matrix: Personality, Milieu, and the Oral Tradition (James McCarthy)
Dave Harker The Rise of the English Street Ballad, 1550-1650 (Natascha Würzbach)
Gillian Bennett Oral-Formulaic Theory: A Folklore Casebook (John Miles Foley)
Gordon AshmanStepping Northward: 24 Scots Airs and Dances for Violin with Cello Accompaniment (David Johnson)
The Mellstock Carols: Original Settings of Nineteenth-Century Village Carols from the Hardy Family and Puddletown Church (A D Townsend)
Nia Gwyn Evans The Story of the Harp in Wales (Osian Ellis)
Marion Bowman The Last Stronghold: The Scottish Gaelic Traditions of Newfoundland (Margaret Bennett)
Steve Gardham Folksongs of New Brunswick (Edward D Ives)
Morgiana Halley For Singing and Dancing and All Sorts of Fun: The Story of the Ottowa Valley's Most Famous Song 'The Chapeau Boys' (I Sheldon Posen)
William A S Sarjeant   Blues Fell This Morning: Meaning in the Blues (Paul Oliver)
Krzysztof Cwizewicz   Polish Folk Music: Slavonic Heritage — Polish Tradition — Contemporary Trends (Anna Czekanowska)
Vic Gammon Journeyman: An Autobiography by Ewan MacColl
A E Green Nowhere in America: The Big Rock Candy Mountain and Other Comic Utopias (Hal Rammel)
Roy Judge Green Man: The Archetype of our Oneness with the Earth (William Anderson)
Derek Schofield Fairs, Feasts and Frolics: Customs and Traditions in Yorkshire (Julia Smith)
Malcolm Taylor A Manual of Sound Archive Administration (Alan Ward)

Review — Periodical

Chris Metherell   Dance Studies, Volume 13 (Centre for Dance Studies)

Reviews — Sound Recordings

John Kirkpatrick Scan Tester 1887-1972: 'I Never Played to Many Posh Dances'
Steve RoudIn Horsham Town (Gordon Hall)
One of the Best (George Fradley)
Brisk and Bonny Lad (Jeff Wesley)
Greeny Up: Songs, Dances and Reminiscences (Francis Shergold)
Bob and Jacqueline  
Patten
The Bells of Paradise: Village Carols from Castleton in the Derbyshire Peaks (Village Carols)
Derek SchofieldFolkways: A Vision Shared
Folkways: The Original Vision (Guthrie and Leadbelly)

Obituary

Bill Murray Bob Cann 1916-1990
Hamish Henderson   Norman Buchan 1922-1990
Ivor AllsopKathleen Mitchell 1912-1990

Cover illustration: Hamish Henderson at the Red Megaphone Conference, a celebration of Ewan MacColl's work and life, Birmingham, 25 November 1990. Photograph by Derek Schofield.

Editor: Dr Ian Russell

Assistant Editor: Dr Roy Judge

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