A01=Ruth L. Tongue
Abram Brown
Alan Dundes
Author_Ruth L. Tongue
balladry
ballads criticism
Blackdown Hills
blues ballad
British folk song fieldwork
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Chime Child
China Cat
Churchyard Wall
Diane Dugaw
Dianne Dugaw
English ballad history
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Exmoor Pony
Fellow Folklorists
folk music
folk scholarship
folklore
Folkloristics
folksong
Joseph Addison
Kind Man
Large Family
Late Medieval Courts
Marish Ground
Moon Mist
Moor Farmers
Mother Eve
narrative song
oral tradition research
Proud Ladye
Rosy Red
rural song collectors
Severn Sea
Severn Side
Soap Suds
Somerset folk music
Sweet Jesu
traditional singers study
TWELVE APOSTLES
White Violets
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138122321
- Weight: 210g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 26 Sep 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Originally published in 1968. The author, a well-known contemporary and friend of folklorist Katharine M. Briggs, collected a tremendous store of folk music material over many years and eventually decided to put some of it on permanent record. This book comprises a cross-section of rescued melodies dating back to medieval days and up to the Victorian early ballads. It describes individual folk singers in Somerset in great detail as personal accounts and documents their lyrics and their tunes, which are all together at the end of the volume.
I am not a musician, nor an expert, nor an academic student in the matter of these old songs. I sang them myself for my own enjoyment and therefore they comprise a cross-section of rescued melodies dating back to medieval days and up to the Victorian early ballads. Very few can be less than a hundred years old, many of my fellow singers reaching back to a youth spent in George IV’s reign, and I do not think they have been collected before. To those who love old songs and their singers I hope they will give as much pleasure as I found in sixty years and more of listening to, and singing, their songs and sharing their company.Among many country people there still lingers the age-old dislike of being mentioned by name. ‘I’ll sing for ‘ee gladly but yew mustn’t put my name to it.’ I have, therefore, out of respect for this feeling and those of friends and relatives, substituted other names for those of the singers described.
