Folk Music Journal
Folk Music Journal is a unique specialist scholarly journal. Published by the English Folk Dance and Song Society, it is the annual publication of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library. It is edited by David Atkinson.
FMJ is published annually in December. It is mailed to all full personal members of English Folk Dance and Song Society who have asked to receive the publication, and to all institutional subscribers. Members also get free access, via JSTOR, to search and browse all editions of FMJ and its predecessors.
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Stepping On
The proceedings from a two-day conference on stepping in dance, November 2019, presented by The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library and InStep Research Team.
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Histories of Morris
The proceedings from The Histories of the Morris in Britain, a two-day conference held at Cecil Sharp House on the 25th and 26th March 2017, organized by the Historical Dance Society and the English Folk Dance and Song Society.
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Vaughan Williams and Folk
In 2022 the VWML ran a conference on Vaughan Williams and Folk to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth. Many of the papers from this conference were published in a volume of the same name by the Ballad Partners, edited by Steve Roud and David Atkinson.
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The English Folk Dance and Song Society has published and co-published a wide range of further books, including song collections, dance books, tune volumes, conference proceedings and more.
Some of these have online resources associated with them, and some are available in their entirety in digital format.
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The English Folk Dance and Song Society also produces a members’ magazine, English Dance and Song.
