Volume 6 Number 5
Volume 6 Number 5 (1994) contains the following pieces:
Articles
Hazel Fairbairn, Changing Contexts for Traditional Dance Music in Ireland: The Rise of Group Performance Practice
Audrey Douglas, 'Owre Thanssynge Day': Parish Dance and Procession in Salisbury
Hugh Anderson, Virtue in a Wilderness: Cecil Sharp's Australian Sojourn, 1882-1892
Note
Stephen D Corrsin, An Online Database on the Bibliography of Sword Dancing
Reviews — Books
| Roy Bailey | The British Folk Scene: Musical Performance and Social Identity (Niall MacKinnon) |
| Teri Brewer | Aspects of British Calendar Customs (Theresa Buckland and Juliette Wood) |
| Brian Doyle | The English Musical Renaissance, 1860-1940: Construction and Deconstruction (Robert Stradling and Meiron Hughes) |
| Vic Gammon | Scotland's Music: A History of the Traditional and Classical Music of Scotland from the Earliest Times to the Present Day (John Purser) |
| Jeremy Barlow | Music and Image: Domesticity, Ideology and Socio-Cultural Formation in Eighteenth-Century England (Richard Leppert) |
| Dave Adamson | Transforming Tradition: Folk Music Revivals Examined (Neil V Rosenberg) |
| Keith Chandler | Galoshins: The Scottish Folk Play (Brian Hayward) |
| A E Green | The English Occupational Song (Gerald Porter) |
| Edward D Ives | Alias MacAlias: Writings on Songs, Folk and Literature (Hamish Henderson) |
| Julia C Bishop | The Ballad and Oral Literature (Joseph Harris) |
| Diana Jewitt | May: An Education Resource Pack for the Summer Term on British Traditions (Doc Rowe and Carolyn Robson) Midwinter: An Education Resource Pack for the Winter Term on British Traditions (Doc Rowe and Carolyn Robson) |
| Cyril Tawney | Music of the Sea (David Proctor) |
| Steve Roud | Lewes Bonfire Night: A Short History of the Guy Fawkes Celebrations (Jim Etherington) 'A Fool's Game': The Ancient Tradition of Haxey Hood (Jeremy J Cooper) Mumming, Howling and Hoodening: Midwinter Rituals in Sussex, Kent and Surrey (Geoff and Fran Doel) |
| Peggy Seeger | 'And Now the Fields are Green': A Collection of Coal Mining Songs in Canada (John C O'Donnell) |
| Anthony Bennett | The Cambridge Companion to the Violin (Robin Stowell) |
| Sam Sherry | Concerning Clogs (Bob Dobson) An Introductory Bibliography on Clog and Step Dancing Based on the Holdings of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library of EFDSS (Chris Metherell) |
| Ivor Allsop | Sword Dancing in Britain: An Annotated Bibliography Based on the Holdings of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library of EFDSS (Stephen D Corrsin) Rattle Up My Boys: An Occasional Broadsheet for Those with an Interest in Longsword Dance (Trevor Stone) |
Reviews — CDs and Cassettes
| Roy Palmer | Ten Shanties Sung on the Australian Run, 1879 (George H Haswell) Sailing Days: Shanties and Sea Songs of the Mersey Shantyman (Stan Hugill with Stormalong John) Chants des Marins Anglais (Stan Hugill et Stormalong John) Now is the Time for Fishing: Songs and Speech by Sam Larner of Winterton, Norfolk |
| Graeme Kirkham | Harvest Home: Songs and Crack from West Tyrone Beauty an Oileáin: Music and Song of the Blasket Islands |
| Ruairidh Greig | I've Come to Sing a Song: Cornish Family Songs (Vic Legg) In that Beautiful Dale: South West Yorkshire Songs Sung by Will Noble |
Obituary
| Roy Palmer | Edward Palmer Thompson 1924-1993 |
| John Pitts | Harold Pitts 1928-1994 |
Cover illustration: Siobhán Peoples (fiddle) and Eamonn Coyne (banjo) at Conway's Bar, Mullach, near Miltown Malbay, County Clare, Ireland, during the 1993 Willie Clancy Summer School. Photograph by Tony C Kearns.
Editor: Dr Julia C Bishop
Assistant Editor: Mr Michael Heaney
