Volume 6 Number 1
Volume 6 Number 1 (1990) contains the following pieces:
Articles
James C Brickwedde, A Claud Wright: Cecil Sharp's Forgotten Dancer
Michael Pickering, Recent Folk Music Scholarship in England: A Critique
J S Bratton, Dancing a Hornpipe in Fetters
Correspondence
The Michaelis-Jena Ratcliff Prize
Reviews — Books
| Julia C Bishop | The Traditional Music of Britain and Ireland: A Select Bibliography and Research Guide (James Porter) |
| Sabine Wienker-Piepho | Warrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650-1850 (Dianne Dugaw) |
| Ian Russell | The Hidden Musicians: Music Making in an English Town (Ruth Finnegan) |
| Colin Neilands | Belfast: City of Song (Maurice Leyden) |
| Dave Harker | The Jacobite Song: Political Myth and National Identity (William Donaldson) |
| Stephanie D L Smith | The Book of Sandy Steward (Roger Leitch) Clap Hands for the Singing Molecatcher: Scenes from a Scottish Childhood (Roderick Grant) |
| Hamish Henderson | Recollections of a Donegal Man (Packie Byrne) |
| Roy Judge | The Hidden Culture: Folklore in Australian Society (Graham Seal) |
| Barry M Weinberg | Chosen Voices: The Story of the American Cantorate (Mark Slobin) |
| Irén Kertész-Wilkinson | Votyak Folksongs (László Vikár and Gábor Bereczki) |
| Ruth Finnegan | Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression (Stephen Feld) |
| Frances Taylor | The Early Mandolin: The Mandolino and the Neapolitan Mandoline (James Tyler and Paul Sparks) |
| Richard Blaustein | 'My Song is my Weapon': People's Songs, American Communism, and the Politics of Culture, 1930-50 (Robbie Lieberman) |
| David K Dunaway | When the Music's Over: The Story of Political Pop (Robin Denselow) |
| Ian Russell | The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music (Stanley Sadie) The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Donald Clarke) The Cambridge Music Guide (Stanley Sadie) |
Review — Periodicals
| Graham Seal | Talking Folklore (British Folk Studies Forum) |
| Gordon Ashman | Australian Folklore (Centre for Australian Studies) |
Reviews — Sound Recordings
| Keith Chandler | Arise, Rejoice and Sing! Village Carols from the Blue Ball Inn, Worrall (Village Carols) While Shepherds Watched: Village Carols from the Fountain, Ingbirchworth (Village Carols) 'Rouse Rouse': Traditional Christmas Carols from Padstow in Cornwall (Veteran Tapes) |
| Steve Roud | A Dartmoor Country Dance Party (Bob Cann and the Pixie Band) Five Generations: The Music and Songs of a Dartmoor Family (Bob Cann and Mark Bazeley) |
| Graeme Kirkham | Down Around Bowmantown: A Portrait of a Musical Community in Northeast Tennessee — Then and Now (Now and Then Records) |
| Carole Pegg | Musics of the Soviet Union (Smithsonian/Folkways) |
Obituary
| Pat MacKenzie and Jim Carroll | Ewan MacColl 1915-1989 |
| George Wallace | Freddy Forster 1919-1989 |
| Eleanor R Long-Wilgus | D K Wilgus 1918-1989 |
| Annette Sanger | John Blacking 1928-1990 |
Cover illustration: Ewan MacColl at the Singers Club, London, August 1988. Photograph by Brian Shuel.
Editor: Dr Ian Russell
Assistant Editor: Dr Roy Judge
