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Folk Song Studies, English

19th C
1886 : Countess Martinengo-Cesaresco : Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs
(G Redway, London) (1914 Dent)
1890 : S Baring-Gould : Old Country Life
(Methuen)
1890 : George Laurence Gomme : The Handbook of Folklore
(David Nutt, London)
1893 : C Hubert H Parry : The Evolution of the Art of Music
(Kena Paul)
1893 : Richard Wallashek : Primitive Music
(London)
1894 : Alfred Mason Williams : Studies in Folk-Song & Popular Poetry
(Elliot Stock, London)

1900-1950
1907 : Cecil J Sharp : English Folk-Song - Some Conclusions
(Barnicott & Pearce, Taunton)
1912 : R Vaughan Williams : English Folk-Songs - Lecture
(EFDS)
1915 : Frank Kidson & Mary neal : English Folk-Song and Dance
(CUP)
1922 : Alfred Williams : Round About the Upper THames
(Duckworth)
1926 : Harry Plunkett Green : Interpretation in Song
(Macmillan)
1933 : A H Fox, Strangways & Maud Karpeles : The Life of Cecil Sharp
(OUP)
1934 : R Vaughan Williams : National Music
(OUP)
1935 : Iolo A Williams : English Folk-Song and Dance
(Longmans)
1940 : W G Whittaker : Collected Essays - Folk Song of the North East
(OUP)
1946 : Wilfred Mellers : Music and Society
(Dennis Dobson)

1950-1960
1952 : C M Bowra : Primitive Song
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
1954 : Margaret Dean-Smith : A Guide to English Folk Song Collections, 1822-1952
(Liverpool UP)
1954 : Reginald Nettel : Sing a Song of England
(Phoenix, London)
1955 : Jean Ritchie : A Singing Family of the Cumberlands
(OUP, NY)
1956 : George CHambers : Folksong - Plainsong
(Merlin, London)
1956 : Reginald Nettel : Seven Centuries of Popular Song
(Phoenix, London)
1956 : V de Sola Pinto & A E Rodway : The Common Muse
( C & W)
1957 : William Purcell : Onward Christian Soldier - A Life of Baring-Gould
(Longmans Green)
1958 : James Reeves : The Idiom of the People
(Heinemann)
1959 : D K Wilgus : Anglo-American Folksong Scholarship Since 1898
(Rutgers UP)
1960 : James Reeves : The Everlasting Circle
(Heinemann)

1961-1970
1962 : Oscar Brand : The Balladmongers - the rise of the modern folk song
(Minerva Press, Canada)
1962 : Curt Sachs : The Wellsprings of Music
(Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague)
1962 : Leslie Shephard : The Broadside Ballad
(HerbertJenkins)
1964 : Frank Rutherford : The Collecting & Publishing of Northumbrian Folk-Song
(Newcastle Soc of Ant)
1965 : Bruno Nettl : Folk and Traditional Music of the Western Continents
(Prentice Hall, NJ)
1966 : Lilla M Fox : Instruments of Popular Music
(Lutterworth)
1966 : Claude M Simpson : The British Broadside Ballad and Its Music
(Rutgers UP)
1966 : Walter Wiora : European Folk Song
(Arno Volk, Cologne) (OUP)
1967 : Maud Karpeles : Cecil Sharp - His Life and Work
(RKP)
1967 : A L Lloyd : Folk Song in England
(Lawrence & Wishart, London)
1968 : Alan Lomax : Folk Song Style and Culture
(Washington) - et al
1969 : Frank Howes : Folk Music of Britain and Beyond
(Methuen)
1970 : Bickford H C Dickinson : Sabine Baring-Gould
(David & Charles)
1970 : Edward Lee : Music of the People
(Barrie & Jenkins)
1970 : Gershon Legman : The Horn Book
(Cape)

1971-1980
1971 : Bob Copper : A Song for Every Season
(Heinemann)
1973 : Ronald Pearsall : Victorian Popular Music
(David & Charles)
1975 : Karl Dallas, Robin Denselow, Dave Laing & Robert Shelton : The Electric Muse
(Methuen)
1976 : Bob Copper : Early to Rise - A Sussex Boyhood
(Heinemann)
1977 : Alan Lomax : Cantometrics
(Univ of Claifornia Press) + cassettes
1977 : Tony Palmer : All You Need is Love
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
1977 : Bob Pegg : Folk
(Wildwood House, London)
1977 : Bob Stewart : Where is St George ? - Pagan Imagery in English Folksong
(Moonraker, Bradford on Avon)
1978 : Robert Leach & Roy Palmer : Folk Music in School
(CUP)
1979 : Fred Woods : Folk Revival
(Blandford)
1980 : Roger de V Renwick : English Folk Poetry - Structure and Meaning
(Batsford)
1980 : Ginette Dunn : The Fellowship of Song
(Croom Helm, London)

Since 1981
1982 : Edward Lee : Folksong and Music Hall
(RKP)
1982 : Michael Pickering : Village Song and Culture
(Croom Helm, London)
1982 : Michael Pollard : Discovering English Folksong
(shire Publications)
1982 : Graham Vulliamy & Edward Lee : Popular Music - A Teacher's Guide
(RKP)
1983 : George DEacon : John Clare and the Folk Tradition
(Sinclair Browne, London)
1983 : Ian Watson : Song and Democractic Culture in Britain
(Croom Helm)
1985 : Dave Harker : Fakesong
(Open Univ Press)

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