Stars and Ribbons

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  • ISBN 9781786838247
  • Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Feb 2022
  • Publisher: University of Wales Press
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Wassail songs are part of Welsh folk culture, but what exactly are they? When are they sung? Why? And where do stars and pretty ribbons fit in? This study addresses these questions, identifying and discussing the various forms of winter wassailing found in Wales in times past and present. It focuses specifically on the Welsh poetry written over the centuries at the celebration of several rituals - most particularly at Christmas, the turn of the year, and on Twelfth Night - which served a distinct purpose. The winter wassailing aspired to improve the quality of the earth's fertility in three specific spheres: the productivity of the land, the animal kingdom, and the human race. This volume provides a rich collection of Welsh songs in their original language, translated into English for the first time, and with musical notation. It also provides a comprehensive analysis of these poems and of the society in which they were sung.

Within the academic community the book can be expected to have broad appeal. It should be of particular interest to those concerned with folk life studies taught widely at the undergraduate and graduate levels at universities within the UK, in countries across the EU, and in several markets further afield. It will be accessible and of interest to an audience drawn from historians, musicologists, linguists, museum professionals, students of Celtic Studies, and those involved with comparative folk life studies worldwide; it will also have significant appeal for readers with a more general interest in Welsh life and culture.