Folk Song in England. By Steve Roud. Faber & Faber; 764 pages; £25. To be published in America in September; $29.95. ENGLAND, the Germans used to jeer, was “the land without music”. They were wrong, ...

Rachel and Becky Unthank (yes, that's their given name) grew up living and breathing folk music in England's Northumberland County -- their parents, both singers, were active performers, and as the ...

With earthy and arresting harmonies, The Watersons from Hull – originally Norma Waterson and her siblings, Lal and Mike Waterson and their cousin John — revived old English folk songs beginning in the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Publisher Information The English Folk Dance and Song Society was formed in 1932 by the merger of two organizations, the Folk-Song Society, and the ...

Japanese folk songs evolved in the same way as English language ones even though they are sung in different tones and scales. Patrick Savage at Keio University in Japan and his colleagues analysed the ...

In the beery, beardy world of folk music, Collins – a young, working class woman – had few people on her side. By Billy Bragg In the late 1950s, Ewan MacColl, one of the driving forces behind the ...

THE recent amalgamation of the Folk Song Society with the English Folk Dance Society has been marked by the appearance of a new journal with the title Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song ...

LOVERS of folk music from Bolton, Bury and across the world are gearing up for an annual festival. The third Homegrown Festival of English folk is returning to Bury for a weekend of inspiring and ...

The Full English is sponsored by the English Folk Dance and Song Society Folk 'supergroup' The Full English have won two BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, for best group and album, while Bella Hardy has been ...