Travellers' songs from England and Scotland
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Bibliographic Information
Travellers' songs from England and Scotland
(Routledge library editions, . Folk music ; v. 12)
Routledge, 2016, c1977
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
First published in 1977 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd
Includes bibliographical references and index
Bibliography: p. 368-384
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Originally published in 1977. The Travellers, from those living in bow-tents and horse-drawn caravans to those dwelling in motor caravans and permanent homes, are an important source of traditional music. Their society means that songs that have died out in more settled communities are preserved among them. Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, widely known as two of the founding singers of the British and American folk revivals, here display a vast fund of folklore scholarship around the songs of British travelling people. Resulting from extensive collecting in southern and southeastern England and central and northeastern Scotland in the 1960s and 70s, this book contains 130 songs with music and comprehensive notes relating them to folkloristic and historical points of interest. It includes traditional ballads and ballads of broadside origin, bawdy, tragic and humorous songs about love, work and death. Most are in English or in Scots dialect with four in Anglo-Romani.
Table of Contents
Introduction. Music Note. General Arrangement. The Singers. The Songs 1. Child Ballads 2. Additional Traditional Ballads 3. Faithful Lovers 4. Erotic Songs 5. Casual Encounters 6. Hesitant Lovers 7. Unfaithful Lovers 8. Family Opposition to Lovers 9. Soldiers and Sailors 10. Crime and Criminals 11. Rural Life 12. Humorous and Miscellaneous 13. Travelling Life. Glossary. Bibliography - Folksong and Folklore, Works Dealing with Travellers. Index of Titles. Index of First Lines.
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