Research Catalog

Title

The Routledge companion to English folk performance / edited by Peter Harrop and Steve Roud.

Publication

• London : Routledge, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Harrop, Peter (Professor of Drama)
• Roud, Stephen

Description

xvi, 596 pages : illustrations (black and white); 25 cm.

Summary

This broad-based collection of essays is an introduction both to the concerns of contemporary folklore scholarship and to the variety of forms that folk performance has taken throughout English history. Combining case studies of specific folk practices with discussion of the various different lenses through which they have been viewed since becoming the subject of concerted study in Victorian times, this book builds on the latest work in an ever-growing body of contemporary folklore scholarship. Many of the contributing scholars are also practicing performers and bring experience and understanding of performance to their analyses and critiques. Chapters range across the spectrum of folk song, music, drama and dance, but maintain a focus on the key defining characteristics of folk performance - custom and tradition - in a full range of performances, from carol singing and sword dancing to playground rhymes and mummers' plays. As well as being an essential reference for folklorists and scholars of traditional performance and local history, this is a valuable resource for readers in all disciplines of dance, drama, song and music whose work coincides with English folk traditions.

Series Statement

Routledge theatre and performance companions

Uniform Title

Routledge theatre and performance companions.

Alternative Title

• Companion to English folk performance
• English folk performance

Subject

• Folk literature, English
• Folklore > Performance > England
• Folk dancing, English
• Folk music > England > History and criticism
• Folklore > Performance
• Folklore
• Folk music
• England

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

*MGS (English) 23-3487

ISBN

• 9781032021966
• 1032021969

OCLC

1351685712

Title

The Routledge companion to English folk performance / edited by Peter Harrop and Steve Roud.

Publisher

London : Routledge, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge theatre and performance companions

Routledge theatre and performance companions.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Harrop, Peter (Professor of Drama), editor.

Roud, Stephen, editor.

Research Call Number

*MGS (English) 23-3487