The chapter examines the meanings of the distinctive singing style associated with the post-Second World War English folk revival. It argues that this 'folk voice' represents a performative response to the cultural challenges presented by the Edwardian folk revival, a new emphasis on cultural authenticity and the influence of imported recordings of American traditional music
This thesis asserts the status of the English Folk Revival of the late-nineteenth and early-twentiet...
International audienceFollowing on from my book, 'The Show Must Go On': Popular Song in Britain duri...
Recent years have seen the discovery of something as wonderful and unexpected as an authentic Englis...
Folk singers were once principal media sources by which news of national events was disseminated in ...
Performing Englishness examines the growth in popularity and profile of the English folk arts in the...
From a mixed methodology perspective that includes ethnology, musicology and cultural anthropology, ...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Cambridge University Pre...
Many countries in the 19th century wanted to assert their national character, with music being one w...
During the Late Victorian period the first folksong revival in England underwent a transformation: t...
Communists loomed large in the first decade of Britain's post-war folk music revival, and cultural h...
Do‘folk musicians’(whatever they are) think about what they are trying to do when they perform in wa...
This chapter explores Folk Music Revival, a movement born in many countries during the 1960s when vo...
The collection of folk-songs in late Victorian England was part of a wider craze for collecting and ...
I found myself for the first time in my life in a community in which singing was as common and almos...
This article foregrounds discrepancies between vernacular singing in England and the work of London’...
This thesis asserts the status of the English Folk Revival of the late-nineteenth and early-twentiet...
International audienceFollowing on from my book, 'The Show Must Go On': Popular Song in Britain duri...
Recent years have seen the discovery of something as wonderful and unexpected as an authentic Englis...
Folk singers were once principal media sources by which news of national events was disseminated in ...
Performing Englishness examines the growth in popularity and profile of the English folk arts in the...
From a mixed methodology perspective that includes ethnology, musicology and cultural anthropology, ...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Cambridge University Pre...
Many countries in the 19th century wanted to assert their national character, with music being one w...
During the Late Victorian period the first folksong revival in England underwent a transformation: t...
Communists loomed large in the first decade of Britain's post-war folk music revival, and cultural h...
Do‘folk musicians’(whatever they are) think about what they are trying to do when they perform in wa...
This chapter explores Folk Music Revival, a movement born in many countries during the 1960s when vo...
The collection of folk-songs in late Victorian England was part of a wider craze for collecting and ...
I found myself for the first time in my life in a community in which singing was as common and almos...
This article foregrounds discrepancies between vernacular singing in England and the work of London’...
This thesis asserts the status of the English Folk Revival of the late-nineteenth and early-twentiet...
International audienceFollowing on from my book, 'The Show Must Go On': Popular Song in Britain duri...
Recent years have seen the discovery of something as wonderful and unexpected as an authentic Englis...