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Friday 24th May 2013

Volume 5 Number 2

Volume 5 Number 2 (1986) contains the following pieces:

Articles

Theresa Buckland, The Tunstead Mill Nutters of Rossendale, Lancashire

Roy Palmer, Kidson's Collecting

Ian A Olson, The Influence of the Folk Song Society on the Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection: Methodology

Zinnia Knapman, A Reappraisal of Percy's Editing

Derek Schofield, 'Revival of the Folk Dance: An Artistic Movement': The Background to the Founding of the English Folk Dance Society in 1911

Note

Wm Bruce Olson, 'Robin and Gonny', an Old Lancashire Ballad

Reviews — Books

Ian A Olson Dave Harker, Fakesong: The Manufacture of British 'Folksong' 1700 to the Present Day
Jim Carroll Nigel Gatherer, Songs and Ballads of Dundee
Michael Pickering   Ailie Munro, The Folk Music Revival in Scotland
Rosemary Dines Jane O'Brien, The Grainger English Folk Song Collection
Georgina Boyes The Concept of Tradition in Ballad Research: A Symposium, edited by Rita Pedersen and Flemming G Andersen
Flemming G Andersen, Commonplace and Creativity: The Role of Formulaic Diction in Anglo-Scottish Traditional Balladry
Keith Gregson Steve Roud and Paul Smith, A Catalogue of Songs and Song Books Printed and Published by James Catnach 1832
Ian Russell Iona and Peter Opie, The Singing Game
A D Townsend Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife: Instrumental Folk Tunes in Pennsylvania, edited by Samuel P Bayard
Elizabeth A Warner   Vladimir Propp, Theory and History of Folklore
J D A Widdowson Brian Shuel, The National Trust Guide to Traditional Customs
Roy Judge Leisure in Britain 1780-1914, edited by John K Walton and James Walvin
Keith Chandler Harry Hopkins, The Long Affray: The Poaching Wars, 1760-1914
Brian Rich David Kerr Cameron, Willie Gavin, Crofter Man: Portrait of a Vanished Lifestyle and The Cornkister Days: A Portrait of a Land and its Rituals
Thomas Pettitt Aspects of Early English Drama, edited by Paula Neuss
David Buchan J P Flett and T M Flett, Traditional Dancing in Scotland
The Rambling Soldier: Life in the Lower Ranks, 1750-1900, through Soldiers' Songs and Writings, edited by Roy Palmer
Michael A Barraclough   English Court and Country Dances of the Early Baroque: From MS Drexel 5612, edited by Hilda Gervers
Theresa Buckland Mary Jane Warner with Frederick E Warner, Laban Notation Scores: An International Bibliography

Reviews — Periodicals

Joan Flett       Dance Studies, Volume 8
Traditional Dance, Volume 3

Reviews — Film

Barry Callaghan     John Cohen, The Ballad and the Source

Reviews — Records and Cassettes

Hugh Shields The Stewarts of Blair: Sheila, Cathie and Belle Stewart
Till Doomsday in the Afternoon: The Folklore of a Family of Scots Travellers, the Stewarts of Blairgowrie, edited by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger
Tom Munnelly   James Campbell of Kintail: Gaelic Songs
Ceolta agus Seanchas Thír Chonaill: Songs and Stories of Joe McCafferty in Irish and English
Sue Mycock Walter Pardon, Bright Golden Store: Songs and Music from Knapton in Norfolk
Helen Myers Under the Coconut Tree: Music from Grand Cayman and Tortola
S Harrison Kathryn Tickell, On Kielderside: Northumbrian Small Pipes and Fiddle

Obituary

Roy Vickery   Christian Hole 1896-1985
Sam Richards   Bill 'Pop' Hingston 1914-1986

Notes on Contributors
 

Cover illustration: Tunstead Mill Nutters Jubilee 1857-1907.
The names of the Nutters are identified in the Bacup Times, 6 April 1907, p 8:
Back row   1. Fred Gregory 2. James Pickup, leader 3. James Rothwell 4. Robert Walsh 5. Joseph Nuttall
Front row   1. Ashworth Cunliffe 2. N Ross 3. James Smethurst. The Whipper is William Hargreaves.
Photograph kindly provided by the late John Flynn

Editor: Dr Ian Russell