Volume 6 Number 2
Volume 6 Number 2 (1991) contains the following pieces:
Articles
Ailie Munro, The Role of the School of Scottish Studies in the Folk Music Revival
John Forrest and Michael Heaney, Charting Early Morris
Alun Howkins and Linda Merricks, The Ploughboy and the Plough Play
Colin Neilands, Irish Broadside Ballads: Performers and Performances
Note
E C Cawte, A Reminiscence of Cecil Sharp as Musician
Correspondence
| Jeremy Barlow, J S Bratton, E C Cawte | 'Dancing a Hornpipe in Fetters' |
| Gordon Ashman | 'A Claud Wright: Cecil Sharp's Forgotten Dancer' |
Reviews — Books
| Hugh Anderson | 'What a Lovely War!' British Soldiers' Songs from the Boer War to the Present Day (Roy Palmer) |
| Hugh Shields | Sam Henry's Songs of the People (Gale Huntington and Lani Herrmann) |
| James Moreira | The Ballad Matrix: Personality, Milieu, and the Oral Tradition (James McCarthy) |
| Dave Harker | The Rise of the English Street Ballad, 1550-1650 (Natascha Würzbach) |
| Gillian Bennett | Oral-Formulaic Theory: A Folklore Casebook (John Miles Foley) |
| Gordon Ashman | Stepping Northward: 24 Scots Airs and Dances for Violin with Cello Accompaniment (David Johnson) The Mellstock Carols: Original Settings of Nineteenth-Century Village Carols from the Hardy Family and Puddletown Church (A D Townsend) |
| Nia Gwyn Evans | The Story of the Harp in Wales (Osian Ellis) |
| Marion Bowman | The Last Stronghold: The Scottish Gaelic Traditions of Newfoundland (Margaret Bennett) |
| Steve Gardham | Folksongs of New Brunswick (Edward D Ives) |
| Morgiana Halley | For Singing and Dancing and All Sorts of Fun: The Story of the Ottowa Valley's Most Famous Song 'The Chapeau Boys' (I Sheldon Posen) |
| William A S Sarjeant | Blues Fell This Morning: Meaning in the Blues (Paul Oliver) |
| Krzysztof Cwizewicz | Polish Folk Music: Slavonic Heritage — Polish Tradition — Contemporary Trends (Anna Czekanowska) |
| Vic Gammon | Journeyman: An Autobiography by Ewan MacColl |
| A E Green | Nowhere in America: The Big Rock Candy Mountain and Other Comic Utopias (Hal Rammel) |
| Roy Judge | Green Man: The Archetype of our Oneness with the Earth (William Anderson) |
| Derek Schofield | Fairs, Feasts and Frolics: Customs and Traditions in Yorkshire (Julia Smith) |
| Malcolm Taylor | A Manual of Sound Archive Administration (Alan Ward) |
Review — Periodical
| Chris Metherell | Dance Studies, Volume 13 (Centre for Dance Studies) |
Reviews — Sound Recordings
| John Kirkpatrick | Scan Tester 1887-1972: 'I Never Played to Many Posh Dances' |
| Steve Roud | In Horsham Town (Gordon Hall) One of the Best (George Fradley) Brisk and Bonny Lad (Jeff Wesley) Greeny Up: Songs, Dances and Reminiscences (Francis Shergold) |
| Bob and Jacqueline Patten |
The Bells of Paradise: Village Carols from Castleton in the Derbyshire Peaks (Village Carols) |
| Derek Schofield | Folkways: A Vision Shared Folkways: The Original Vision (Guthrie and Leadbelly) |
Obituary
| Bill Murray | Bob Cann 1916-1990 |
| Hamish Henderson | Norman Buchan 1922-1990 |
| Ivor Allsop | Kathleen Mitchell 1912-1990 |
Cover illustration: Hamish Henderson at the Red Megaphone Conference, a celebration of Ewan MacColl's work and life, Birmingham, 25 November 1990. Photograph by Derek Schofield.
Editor: Dr Ian Russell
Assistant Editor: Dr Roy Judge
