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The Late Victorian Folksong Revival. The Persistence of English Melody, 1878-1903.
E. David Gregory
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Description for The Late Victorian Folksong Revival. The Persistence of English Melody, 1878-1903.
Hardback. Num Pages: 600 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; AVGC5; AVGH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 289 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1878.
In The Late Victorian Folksong Revival: The Persistence of English Melody, 1878-1903, E. David Gregory provides a reliable and comprehensive history of the birth and early development of the first English folksong revival. Continuing where Victorian Songhunters, his first book, left off, Gregory systematically explores what the Late Victorian folksong collectors discovered in the field and what they published for posterity, identifying differences between the songs noted from oral tradition and those published in print. In doing so, he determines the extent to which the collectors distorted what they found when publishing the results of their research in an era ... Read more
In The Late Victorian Folksong Revival: The Persistence of English Melody, 1878-1903, E. David Gregory provides a reliable and comprehensive history of the birth and early development of the first English folksong revival. Continuing where Victorian Songhunters, his first book, left off, Gregory systematically explores what the Late Victorian folksong collectors discovered in the field and what they published for posterity, identifying differences between the songs noted from oral tradition and those published in print. In doing so, he determines the extent to which the collectors distorted what they found when publishing the results of their research in an era ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
600
Condition
New
Number of Pages
600
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810869882
SKU
V9780810869882
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99-15
About E. David Gregory
E. David Gregory is professor of history and humanities and chair of the Centre for Global & Social Analysis at Athabasca University in Northern Alberta, Canada. He is the author of Victorian Songhunters: The Recovery and Editing of English Vernacular Ballads and Folk Lyrics, 1820-1883 (Scarecrow Press, 2006).
Reviews for The Late Victorian Folksong Revival. The Persistence of English Melody, 1878-1903.
A welcome follow-up to Gregory's Victorian Songhunters: The Recovery and Editing of English Vernacular Ballads and Folk Lyrics, 1820-1833 (2006), this book presents tunes and texts for hundreds of songs from the published works of British folksong collectors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, in particular Sabine Baring-Gould, Frank Kidson, and Lucy Broadwood. Active before sound-recording technology was ... Read more