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Folk Music Journal: Volume 7 Number 1

Volume 7 Number 1 (1995) contains the following pieces:

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Articles

Joel H Baer, Bold Captain Avery in the Privy Council: Early Variants of a Broadside Ballad from the Pepys Collection

Tom Pettitt, Customary Drama: Social and Spatial Patterning in Traditional Encounters

Gerald Porter, Cobblers All: Occupation as Identity and Cultural Message

Note

Wilf Darlington, 'Go George, I Can't Endure You': A Country Dance and its Tune

Correspondence

Peter Millington   'The Ploughboy and the Plough Play'
Wilf Darlington'The Trumpet Hornpipe'

Reviews — Books

Roy JudgeThe Rise and Fall of Merry England: The Ritual Year 1400-1700 (Ronald Hutton)
Keith ChandlerTraditional Anglo-American Folk Music: An Annotated Discography of Published Sound Recordings (Norm Cohen)
Alun HowkinsMorris Dancing in the English South Midlands, 1660-1900: A Chronological Gazetteer (Keith Chandler)
W F H Nicholaisen   Narrative Singing in Ireland: Lays, Ballads, Come-All-Yes and Other Songs (Hugh Shields)
Chris SmithThe Life and Legend of Leadbelly (Charles Wolfe and Kip Lornell)
Theresa BucklandThe Crooked Stovepipe: Athapaskan Fiddle Music and Square Dancing in Northeast Alaska and Northwest Canada (Craig Mishler)
Vic GammonA Social History of Music Education in England 1872-1928 (Gordon Cox)
Michael PickeringLove and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (Eric Lott)
Joan FlettScotland's Dances: A Review of the 1994 Conference on the Diversity of the Scottish Traditions of Dance
Julia C BishopThe Oxford Companion to Australian Folklore (Gwenda Beed Davey and Graham Seal)
Vic GammonTraces of Ancient Mystery: The Ballad Carols of Davies Gilbert and William Sandys (Richard McGrady)
A Festival of Village Carols: Sixteen Carols from the Mount-Dawson Manuscripts, Worrall (Ian Russell)
Keith SummersSalonikiós, 'The Best Violin in the Balkans': Dimítrios Sémsis Alias Salonikiós (Lisbet Torp)
David AtkinsonThe Stockholm Ballad Conference 1991: Proceedings of the 21st International Ballad Conference, August 19-22, 1991 (Bengt R Jonsson)
Chris MetherellDance History: An Introduction (Janet Adshead-Lansdale and June Layson)
Discovering English Folk Dance (Hugh Rippon)
Gerald PorterWobblies, Pile Butts, and Other Heroes: Laborlore Explorations (Archie Green)
Elizabeth WarnerRussian Folk Lyrics (Roberta Reeder)
Mike YatesThe Stonemans: An Appalachian Family and the Music that Shaped their Lives (Ivan M Tribe)
Tecwyn Vaughan JonesThe People in the Playground (Iona Opie)
John AshtonSongs about Work: Essays in Occupational Culture for Richard A Reuss (Archie Green)
Sally DrageHymns and Hymn Singing: A Popular Guide (David Baker and Joan Welsby)
Alan WardTraveling the High Way Home: Ralph Stanley and the World of Traditional Bluegrass Music (John Wright)
Christopher Wiltshire   Barbershopping: Musical and Social Harmony (Max Kaplan)
Dave HarkerThe Conspiracy of Good Taste: William Morris, Cecil Sharp, Clough Williams-Ellis and the Repression of Working Class Culture in the 20th Century (Stefan Szcelkun)
Julia C BishopSongs of Labrador (Tim Borlase)

Reviews — Sound Recordings

Anita Best and Eileen CondonHarvest Home: It's of my Rambles — Songs and Tunes from Ulster (Len Graham)
Jim Gilchrist   Sonneurs de Vielle Traditionnels en Bretagne
Sonneurs de Clarinette en Bretagne: Sonnerien Treujenn-Gaol
Sonneurs de Veuze en Bretagne et Marais Breton Vendéen
Peter Brook Music from the English West Gallery Tradition (The Christminster Singers with the Mellstock Band)
Arise, Arise! West Gallery Music in New England (The Mellstock Band and the Bayley-Hazen Singers)
To Celebrate Christmas: Village Carols from the Travellers Rest, Oughtibridge (Ian Russell)

Obituary

Ian OlsonDavid Buchan 1939-1994
Ian RussellFrank Hinchliffe 1923-1995
Walter AbsonJoseph Needham 1900-1995
Keith Chandler   Arnold Woodley 1925-1995
Walter AbsonLilnel Bacon 1910-1994
Peter CliftonDick Hewitt 1921-1994
Ivor AllsopKenneth Loveless 1911-1995

Cover illustration: Dick Hewitt, performing at Cecil Sharp House, London, 1981. Photograph by Doc Rowe.

Editor: Julia C Bishop

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