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Folk Song in England
STEVE ROUD
With music chapters by
Julia Bishop
For Jacqueline and Stephanie – my favourite grandchildren
Contents
Title Page
Dedication
INTRODUCTION: ONLY FOOLS AND FIDDLERS
Introduction
1 Is There Such a Thing as Folk Song, Anyway?
Definitions and Discussions
PART ONE: CHARTING THE HISTORY OF FOLK-SONG STUDY
Introduction
2 Our History 1: Hunters and Gatherers
Song Editors and Pioneer Collectors before 1898
3 Our History 2: Bringing in the Harvest
Folk-Song Collectors and Editors after 1898
4 Our History 3: Tuning a Song
Collecting the Music (by Julia Bishop)
PART TWO: FOLK SONG IN THE WIDER MUSICAL WORLD
Introduction
5 Ungodly Ballad-Singers and Unprofitable Fiddlers
The Sixteenth Century
6 Milkmaids All in a Row
The Seventeenth Century
7 Where Is Our Folk Song Hiding?
Folk Song in the Eighteenth Century
8 Nymphs and Shepherds in the Garden
Other Eighteenth-Century Musics
9 A Nest of Singing Birds?
Folk Song in the Nineteenth Century
10 Penny Gaffs, Music Halls and Parlours
Other Nineteenth-Century Musics
11 Tradition in Terminal Decline
Folk Song in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
12 The Triumph of Popular Music
Other Musics in the Twentieth Century
PART THREE: FOLK SONG IN ITS NATURAL HABITATS
Introduction
13 Back-Street Printers, Ballad-Sellers and Buskers
Street Literature and Street Music
14 Just Before (and After) the Battle, Mother
The Singing Habits of Sailors and Soldiers
15 Raise Your Voices to the Lord (or Not)
Religious Singing in Church, Chapel and Home
16 By the Sweat of Your Brow
Work Songs and Singing at Work
17 Not Fit for Ladies’ Ears?
The Preponderance of Bawdy
18 Nowt So Queer As Folk
Dialect and Local Songs
19 The Mechanics of Tradition
Aspects of Song Traditions in Practice
20 The Mechanics of the Music
Modes, Tune Families and Variation (by Julia Bishop)
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Also by the Author
Copyright

INTRODUCTION
ONLY FOOLS AND FIDDLERS
Introduction
Only fools and fiddlers learn old songs.
 
‘Singing costs nowt,’ Dad used to say. ‘When a man’s a-singing he needs no help; when a man’s a-cussin’, that’s when the bugger’s got trouble.’
The first quotation comes from the folk-song collector Alfred Williams, who reported it as an old saying in 1922, and is a cautionary remark that we in folk music generally ignore. The second is from Mont Abbott, born in 1903, in Enstone, Oxfordshire, who learnt most of his songs in the famil ............

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