The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance

Contents

• Introduction. - Peter Harrop & Steve Roud; Part l: Folk Drama, Theatre and Performance.; Part l Introduction. - Peter Harrop;
• Chapter 1 : Towards an anatomy of English customary drama: theatre, stage, play. - Thomas Pettitt.;
• Chapter 2 : Performing calendrical pressures: Shrovetide processions and shroving perambulations in premodern England. - Taylor Aucoin.;
• Chapter 3 : Robin Hood folk-performance in fifteenth and sixteenth-century England. - John Marshall.;
• Chapter 4 : Alongside the mummers' plays: customary elements in amateur and semi-professional theatre 1730 - 1850. - Peter Harrop.;
• Chapter 5 : The Alderley Mummers' Play: A story of longevity. - Duncan Broomhead;
• Chapter 6 : A performance bestiary. - Mike Pearson.;
• Chapter 7 : Performing community: village life and the spectacle of worship in the work of Charles Marson. - Katie Palmer Heathman.;
• Chapter 8 : Boxing Day Fancy Dress in Wigan. - Anna F C Smith; Part ll: Folk Dance.; Part ll Introduction. - Peter Harrop;
• Chapter 9 : Merry Neets and Bridewains: contemporary commentaries on folk music, dance, and song in the Lake Counties during the Romantic period. - Sue Allan;
• Chapter 10 : Sword Dancing in England: Texts and sources from the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. - Stephen D Corrsin;
• Chapter 11 : From Country Gardens to British Festivals: The Morris Dance Revival, 1886 - 1951. - Matt Simons;
• Chapter 12 : The English Country Dance, Cecil Sharp and Authenticity. - Derek Schofield;
• Chapter 13 : Douglas Kennedy and Folk Dance in English Schools. - Chloe Middleton-Metcalfe.;
• Chapter 14 : Fancy Footwork: Reviewing the English Clog and Step Dance Revival. - Alex Fisher.;
• Chapter 15 : Expanding a Repertoire: Leicester Morrismen and the Border Morris. - John Swift.;
• Chapter 16 : Dancing with tradition: clog, step and short sword rapper in the twenty first century. - Libby Worth;
• Chapter 17 : 'Sequins, bows and pointed toes': Girls' carnival morris - the 'other' morris dancing community. - Lucy Wright; Part lll: Folk Song and Music.; Part lll Introduction. - Steve Roud;
• Chapter 18 : Recrafting Love and Murder: Print and Memory in the Mediation of a Murdered Sweetheart Ballad. - Thomas Pettitt;
• Chapter 19 : Burlesquing the Ballad. - Steve Gardham;
• Chapter 20 : The Rise and Fall of the West Gallery: popular religious music in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. - Vic Gammon;
• Chapter 21 : The Drive for English Identity in Music and the Foundation of the Folk-Song Society. - Arthur Knevett;
• Chapter 22 : 'No Art More Dangerous' - Eve Maxwell-Lyte and Folk Song. - Martin Graebe;
• Chapter 23 : Creativity versus Authenticity in the English folksong revival. - Brian Peters;
• Chapter 24 : Folk Choirs: Their Origins and Contribution to the Living Tradition. - Paul Wilson & Marilyn Tucker;
• Chapter 25 : 'Past Performances on Paper' - A Case Study of The Manuscript Tunebook of Thomas Hampton - Rebecca Dellow;
• Chapter 26 : The Performers in the Playground: Children's Musical Practices in Play . - Julia Bishop