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London: Routledge & Kegan Paul , 1977 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The Travellers, from those living in bow-tents and horse-drawn caravans to those dwelling in motor caravans and permanent homes, are an important source of traditional music. Their society means that songs that have died out in more settled communities are preserved among them. Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, widely known as two of the founding singers of the British and American folk revivals, here display a vast fund of folklore scholarship around the songs of British travelling people. Resulting from extensive collecting in southern and southeastern England and central and northeastern Scotland in the 1960s and 70s, this book contains 130 songs with music and comprehensive notes relating them to folkloristic and historical points of interest. It includes traditional ballads and ballads of broadside origin, bawdy, tragic and humorous songs about love, work and death. Most are in English or in Scots dialect with four in…
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London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977 A wide ranging survey of variant words and music of traditional songs from travellers,gypsies and tinkers in England and Scotland. 357p. references index. 1st UK Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.
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- Publisher Routledge & Kegan Paul
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1977
- Keywords FOLK MUSIC BALLADS ENGLISH SCOTTISH
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