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Thread #143710 Message #3318221
Posted By: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
06-Mar-12 - 11:13 AM
Thread Name: A folklore book shelf
Subject: RE: A folklore book shelf
Try Heart of Albion - as an imprint they have an impressive stock of fine books. Especially fine is Marcia MacDermott's Explore Green Men (which explodes the myth of the Green Man as a folkloric image) and Bob Trubshaws Explore Folklore (though he loses the plot rather in his discussion of folk music, which deals with Genre Folk rather than exploring musical usage in vernaular social context as his main thesis would have suggested).
Otherwise:
Bob Pegg - Rites & Riots (and Folk, if you can find it).
David Thomson - People of the Sea
George Ewart Evans - everything
Ronald Hutton - Stations of the Sun
Steve Roud - The English Year
Bob Copper - A Song for Every Season
The Faber Book of Popular Verse
The list is endless...