Volume 9 Number 1
Volume 9 Number 1 (2006) contains the following pieces:
Articles
Keith Chandler, Popular Culture in Microcosm: The Manuscript Diaries of Richard Heritage of Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire
All too often, popular culture has been segmented and compartmentalized by collectors and historians: this informant was a singer, that a musician, a third a morris dancer. Frequently overlooked is the reality that individual talent may be projected in numerous directions. Previously unseen outside of a family context, thirty years' worth of unpublished diaries maintained by an inhabitant of the rural south midlands during the first half of the nineteenth century, whose activities encompassed all of these fields and others, permit a unique, in-depth study of the popular culture of that time and region.
Graham Seal, A L Lloyd in Australia: Some Conclusions
The nature and extent of A L Lloyd's editing and reworking of Australian folk songs has long been a controversial issue in Australia. Examination of the extant Lloyd papers and a survey of the work of other researchers allows for a critical consideration of Lloyd's editorial practices and also an assessment of his importance for Australian folk song scholarship. These issues are significant ones, both for understanding the nature of the Australian bush song tradition and for its general presentation to the public.
Michael Yates and Steve Roud, Alice E. Gillington: Dweller on the Roughs
Alice E Gillington was a pioneer collector of songs from English Gypsies and yet today she remains largely unknown. Although invited to join the Folk-Song Society, she never did so. This paper considers her collection and collecting methods, asks why Gillington remained apart from other collectors, and tries to discover why she chose to follow her own path.
Correspondence
| Gordon Ridgewell, E C Cawte | A Historyof the Rapper Dance |
| David Broughton | Phil Tanner |
Reviews — Books
| Sandra Kerr | Folk Song: Tradition, Revival, and Re-Creation (Ian Russell and David Atkinson) |
| Graeme Kirkham | Country Music Records: A Discography, 1921–1942 (Tony Russell) |
| Jerry Epstein | Dear Companion: Appalachian Traditional Songs and Singers from the Cecil Sharp Collection (Elaine Bradtke, Mike Yates, and Malcolm Taylor) |
| Graham Seal | Hearing the Call: Music and Social History on Lord Howe Island (Phillip Hayward) |
| Michael Heaney | Records of Early English Drama: Oxford (John R Elliott and Alan H Nelson; Alexandra F Johnston and Diana Wyatt) |
| Robert Burns | Electric Folk: The Changing Face of English Traditional Music (Britta Sweers) |
| David Atkinson | The Singer and the Scribe: European Ballad Traditions and European Ballad Cultures (Philip E Bennett and Richard Firth Green) |
Reviews — CD-ROM
| Roy Palmer | Manchester Street Ballads |
Reviews — Sound Recordings
| Vic Gammon | Yon Green Banks: Songs Sung in South Yorkshire (Will Noble and John Cocking) |
| The Birds upon the Tree and Other Traditional Songs and Tunes: More Songs and Tunes from the Mike Yates Collection | |
| Ray Templeton | Stranded in the USA: Early Songs of Emigration |
| Keith Chandler | Hidden Fermanagh: Traditional Music and Song from County Fermanagh |
| The Hardy Sons of Dan: Football, Hunting and Other Traditional Songs from around Loch Erne's Shore |
Reviews — Shorter Notices
| David Atkinson | The First Week in August: Fifty Years of the Sidmouth Festival (Derek Schofield)
Ljudsko in umetno — dva obraza ustvarjalnosti (Marjetka Golez Kaucic) Scottish Fiddle Music in the 18th Century: A Music Collection and Historical Study (David Johnson) Folklore of Warwickshire (Roy Palmer) This Machine Kills Fascists (Woody Guthrie) |
Obituaries
| John Jenner | William Walker (Walter) Abson 1911-2005 |
| Stephen D Winick | Alan Dundes 1934-2005 |
| Maurice Fleming | Cathie Higgins (née Stewart) 1927-2005 |
| Norm Cohen with Terry Zug
and Dan Patterson |
Eleanor R Long-Wilgus 1923-2005 |
| Jim Carroll and Pat Mackenzie | Michael 'Mikeen' McCarthy 1931-2004 |
| Mary McCarthy | Margaret Fay Shaw 1903-2004 |
| Ian Russell | Leslie Alan Shepard 1917-2004 |
| Roy Palmer | Cyril Tawney 1930-2005 |
Notes on Contributors
Corrigenda
| Cover illustrations: | Richard Heritage, probably 12 September 1860. Courtesy of Jill Jay.
Page from Richard Herring's manuscript tune book. Keith Chandler collection. |
| Editor | David Atkinson |
