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Thread #4260   Message #1416403
Posted By: Desert Dancer
21-Feb-05 - 10:47 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Reynardine: Info?
Subject: RE: Origins: Reynardine: Info?
Here's a link to Steve Winick's article, A. L. Lloyd and Reynardine: authenticity and authorship in the afterlife of a British broadside ballad in the December 2004 issue of Folklore.

The abstract:

'This paper presents new evidence concerning the broadside ballad "Reynardine," which became popular in the British folksong revival movement of the 1960s and 1970s. It argues that the revival versions of this ballad were not products of the folk tradition, but rather descendants of a text authored by A. L. Lloyd, who was both a singer and a folksong scholar. The paper goes on to suggest reasons why Lloyd might have authored the ballad, and reasons why he might have concealed that authorship, placing its evidence and observations in the context of folkloristic concerns about authenticity and authorship, folklore and fakelore.'

~ Becky in Tucson