The annual Folk Song Conference, hosted by the English Folk Dance and Song Society, will be taking place at Cecil Sharp House, London.
Held on Saturday 10 October, the event will see a number of experts from across the genre discussing and exploring traditional song performance and the contexts surrounding it.
According to the EFDSS, the morning will be devoted to a variety of papers on various folk song topics.
The afternoon will feature an open discussion on the history of traditional song, including a panel featuring David Atkinson, Julia Bishop, Vic Gammon, Martin Graebe, Derek Schofield and Steve Roud.
The question for debate will be: Folk song never existed in a cultural vacuum - what other kinds of musics did it draw from and in turn influence?
The full programme for the event is:
10.15 - 10.45 Diana Coles
'Missis Atkins and Jenny Tar': Women Dressing as Men in Literature, Ballad and Life
10.45 - 11.15 Tom Pettitt
Memory, Print and Performance: 'The Cruel Miller' (Roud 263) Revisited
11.15 - 11.45 Tea
11.45 - 12.15 Clare Button
‘…The sweet ring of truth in a song about the soil...’ : the Authenticity of Place in British Traditional Song
12.15 - 12.45 Eamon Byers
The Dead Hand of the Past: D. H. Lawrence, the Folk Revival & the First World War
12.45 - 1.15 Peter Robson
Thomas Hardy and the Child Ballads
1.15 - 2.15 Lunch
2.15 - 4.30
Round table seminar: 'Folk' and 'traditional song has never existed in a cultural vacuum. Which other categories, genres, styles or musics should we be looking at to understand our field?
Visit the EFDSS website to find out more.
Held on Saturday 10 October, the event will see a number of experts from across the genre discussing and exploring traditional song performance and the contexts surrounding it.
According to the EFDSS, the morning will be devoted to a variety of papers on various folk song topics.
The afternoon will feature an open discussion on the history of traditional song, including a panel featuring David Atkinson, Julia Bishop, Vic Gammon, Martin Graebe, Derek Schofield and Steve Roud.
The question for debate will be: Folk song never existed in a cultural vacuum - what other kinds of musics did it draw from and in turn influence?
The full programme for the event is:
10.15 - 10.45 Diana Coles
'Missis Atkins and Jenny Tar': Women Dressing as Men in Literature, Ballad and Life
10.45 - 11.15 Tom Pettitt
Memory, Print and Performance: 'The Cruel Miller' (Roud 263) Revisited
11.15 - 11.45 Tea
11.45 - 12.15 Clare Button
‘…The sweet ring of truth in a song about the soil...’ : the Authenticity of Place in British Traditional Song
12.15 - 12.45 Eamon Byers
The Dead Hand of the Past: D. H. Lawrence, the Folk Revival & the First World War
12.45 - 1.15 Peter Robson
Thomas Hardy and the Child Ballads
1.15 - 2.15 Lunch
2.15 - 4.30
Round table seminar: 'Folk' and 'traditional song has never existed in a cultural vacuum. Which other categories, genres, styles or musics should we be looking at to understand our field?
Visit the EFDSS website to find out more.
