The Routledge companion to English folk performance. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Peter Harrop, Steve Roud.
• Editors: (Professor of Drama), Harrop, Peter; Roud, Stephen
• Contents: Introduction. - Peter Harrop & Steve Roud; Part l: Folk Drama, Theatre and Performance.; Part l Introduction. - Peter Harrop; Chapter 1: Towards an anatomy of English customary drama: theatre, stage, play. - Thomas Pettitt.; Chapter 2: Performing calendrical pressures: Shrovetide processions and shroving perambulations in premodern England. - Taylor Aucoin.; Chapter 3: Robin Hood folk-performance in fifteenth and sixteenth-century England. - John Marshall.; Chapter 4: Alongside the mummers’ plays: customary elements in amateur and semi-professional theatre 1730 – 1850. - Peter Harrop.; Chapter 5: The Alderley Mummers’ Play: A story of longevity. - Duncan Broomhead; Chapter 6: A performance bestiary. - Mike Pearson.; Chapter 7: Performing community: village life and the spectacle of worship in the work of Charles Marson. - Katie Palmer Heathman.; Chapter 8: Boxing Day Fancy Dress in Wigan. - Anna F C Smith; Part ll: Folk Dance.; Part ll Introduction. - Peter Harrop; Chapter 9: Merry Neets and Bridewains: contemporary commentaries on folk music, dance, and song in the Lake Counties during the Romantic period. - Sue Allan; Chapter 10: Sword Dancing in England: Texts and sources from the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. - Stephen D Corrsin; Chapter 11: From Country Gardens to British Festivals: The Morris Dance Revival, 1886 – 1951. - Matt Simons; Chapter 12: The English Country Dance, Cecil Sharp and Authenticity. - Derek Schofield; Chapter 13: Douglas Kennedy and Folk Dance in English Schools. - Chloe Middleton-Metcalfe.; Chapter 14: Fancy Footwork: Reviewing the English Clog and Step Dance Revival. - Alex Fisher.; Chapter 15: Expanding a Repertoire: Leicester Morrismen and the Border Morris. - John Swift.; Chapter 16: Dancing with tradition: clog, step and short sword rapper in the twenty first century. - Libby Worth; Chapter 17: ‘Sequins, bows and pointed toes’: Girls' carnival morris – the ‘other’ morris dancing community. - Lucy Wright; Part lll: Folk Song and Music.; Part lll Introduction. - Steve Roud; Chapter 18: Recrafting Love and Murder: Print and Memory in the Mediation of a Murdered Sweetheart Ballad. - Thomas Pettitt; Chapter 19: Burlesquing the Ballad. - Steve Gardham; Chapter 20: The Rise and Fall of the West Gallery: popular religious music in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. - Vic Gammon; Chapter 21: The Drive for English Identity in Music and the Foundation of the Folk-Song Society. - Arthur Knevett; Chapter 22: ‘No Art More Dangerous’ – Eve Maxwell-Lyte and Folk Song. - Martin Graebe; Chapter 23: Creativity versus Authenticity in the English folksong revival. - Brian Peters; Chapter 24: Folk Choirs: Their Origins and Contribution to the Living Tradition. - Paul Wilson & Marilyn Tucker; Chapter 25: ‘Past Performances on Paper’ – A Case Study of The Manuscript Tunebook of Thomas Hampton - Rebecca Dellow; Chapter 26: The Performers in the Playground: Children’s Musical Practices in Play . - Julia Bishop
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 398.20942; Folk literature, English; Folklore -- Performance -- England
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000401592; 9781000401554; 9780429299063
• Related ISBNs: 9780367279929
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