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Folk Music Journal: Volume 6 Number 4

Volume 6 Number 4 (1993) contains the following pieces:

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Articles

Anthony Bennett, Rivals Unravelled: A Broadside Song and Dance

Richard Sykes, The Evolution of Englishness in the English Folksong Revival, 1890-1914

Michael Heaney, 'With Scarfes and Garters as You Please': An Exploratory Essay in the Economics of the Morris

Correspondence

Beth Shaw   'The Ploughboy and the Plough Play' (Alun Howkins and Linda Merricks)

Reviews — Books

Alun Howkins 'Ribbons, Bells and Squeaking Fiddles': The Social History of Morris Dancing in the English South Midlands, 1660-1900 (Keith Chandler)
Derek Schofield The Imagined Village: Culture, Ideology and the English Folk Revival (Georgina Boyes)
Tom Cook The Playford Ball: 103 Early English Country Dances 1651-1820 — As Interpreted by Cecil Sharp and his Followers (Kate Van Winkle Keller and Genevieve Shimer)
Catherine E Foley Chain and Round Dance Patterns: A Method for Structural Analysis and its Application to European Material (Lisbet Torp)
Leila Dudley Edwards   The Sang's the Thing: Voices from Lowland Scotland (Sheila Douglas)
Julia C BishopStepping Northward: 24 Scots Airs and Dances for Violin with Cello Accompaniment (David Johnson)
The Melodic Tradition of Ireland (James R Cowdery)
Ian Olson The Flower of Dunaff Hill and More Traditional Songs Sung in Inishowen (Jimmy McBride)
'The Flower of Dunaff Hill' and Other Traditional Songs from Inishowen (The Inishowen Traditional Singers)
An Hour of Song: Folk Songs and Ballads from the Inishowen Tradition (Maggie McGee and Dan McGonigle)
The First of my Rambles: Folk Songs from Ulster (Roisin White)
Ian Russell The New Oxford Book of Carols (Hugh Keyte and Andrew Parrott)
Sigrid Rieuwerts Recent Ballad Research: Proceedings of the 19th International Folk Ballad Conference (Tom Cheesman)
Singing the Changes: Variation in Four Traditional Ballads (Gerald Porter)
Ian Dyck Cheap Print and Popular Piety, 1550-1640 (Tessa Watt)
Keith Summers Black Music in Britain: Essays on the Afro-Asian Contribution to Popular Music (Paul Oliver)
Jan Fairley Carnival and Other Seasonal Festivals in the West Indies, USA and Britain: A Selected Bibliographical Index (John Cowley)
History of Carnival: Christmas, Carnival, Calenda and Calypso from Trinidad 1929-1939
Keith Chandler Ethnic Music on Records: A Discography of Ethnic Recordings Produced in the United States, 1893 to 1942 (Richard K Spottswood)
E C Cawte Berkshire Mumming Plays: A Geographical Index and Guide to Sources (Steve Roud and Malcolm Bee)
The Imperilled Inheritance: Dialect and Folklife Studies at the University of Leeds 1946-1962. Part 1 (Craig Fees)
Roy Judge Shakespeare's Festive World: Elizabethan Seasonal Entertainment and the Professional Stage (François Laroque)
Vic Gammon Origins of the Popular Style:The Antecedents of Twentieth-Century Popular Music (Peter van der Merwe)
Jan Fairley Studying Popular Music (Richard Middleton)
Michael Pickering Sonic Harvest: Towards Musical Democracy (Sam Richards)
Derek Schofield The Charter for the Arts in Scotland

Review — Periodical

Suzel Ana Reily   British Journal of Ethnomusicology, Volume 1

Reviews — CDs and Cassettes

Hazel Fairbairn   Casey in the Cowhouse: The Unique Music of Bobby Casey
Set Dances of Ireland Volume 1
The Long Strand: Irish Fiddle Music from Liverpool (Sean McNamara, Eamon Coyne, Peggy Peakin)
Tom Munnelly'Crazy About a song': Old-Time Ballad Singers and Musicians from Virginia and North Carolina
Sam RichardsPass Around the Grog: The Songs of Two Cornishmen (Charlie Pitman and Tommy Morrissey)
Let This Room be Cheerful (Bob Mills)
David WardPeace o'er the World: Village Carols from Hathersage in the Peak District

Obituary

Chris Roche Stan Hugill 1906-1992
Peter A Hall     Lizzie Higgins 1929-1993

Cover illustration: Lizzie Higgins in Old Aberdeen, 1974. Photograph by Peter Hall.

Editor: Dr Ian Russell

Assistant Editors: Mr Michael Heaney, Dr Julia C Bishop, Dr Vic Gammon

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