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Posted By: GUEST,Steve Roud
27-Sep-13 - 05:06 AM
Thread Name: EFDSS Folk Song Conference 5/6 Oct 2013
Subject: EFDSS Folk Song Conference 5/6 Oct 2013
Tickets still available for the conference. It promises to be an excellent weekend http://www.efdss.org/component/content/article/21-shared/shared-events/262-folk-song-conference-2013
EFDSS FOLK SONG CONFERENCE 5/6 October 2013 Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regents Park Rd., London NW1 7AY
Saturday Morning
(1) Collectors
10.00 - 10.30 - Chris Wildridge : What's in a name? Alfred Williams and the identities of his singers
10.30.-11.00 - Graham Seal : Dr Thomas Wood: Forgotten Folksong Collector and Cultural Conspiracist
11.00 - 11.30 - C. J. Bearman : Cecil Sharp and Photography
(2) Collectors
11.30 - 12.00 - Sue Allan : Miss Wakefield's Folk Song Competition 1902 – 1906
12.00 - 12.30 - Martin Graebe : Old Songs and Sugar Mice: the story of the remarkable Miss Mason
12.30 - 1.00 - Paul Burgess : Eliza Wedgwood and her work with Gloucestershire folk singers
Saturday Afternoon
(1) Collectors and Singers
2.00 - 2.30 - Angela Shaw : An Exploration of Meaning of Traditional Folk Song for a Traditional Woman Singer in the 19th Century (Jane Gulliver)
2.30 - 3.00 - Yvette Staelens : Alice Snow – Somerset Folk song Collector
3.00 - 3.30 - Derek Schofield : Maud Karpeles' Folk Song Collecting
TEA
4.00 - 4.30 - Geoff Woolfe : Phyllis Marshall and her singers
(2) Specific Songs and Traditions
4.30 - 5.00 - Brian Peters : 'The Wild Rover' and its place in the folk song repertoire
5.00 - 5.30 -
5.30 - 6.00 - Claire Button : 'No father, no mother, nor no friend at all': The Poor Murdered Woman as local journalism and subversive 'crime ballad'.
Saturday Evening
7.30 - Brian Peters and Jeff Davis - Sharp's Appalachian Harvest
Sunday Morning
(1) Specific Songs and Traditions
10.00 - 10.30 -
10.30.-11.00 - Peter Wood : Napoleonic Songs – an Overview
11.00 - 11.30 - Alastair Vannan : Infanticide in Folk Song
11.30 - 12.00 - David Atkinson : The Evidential Problem(s) in Ballad Research
(2) Uses of Tradition: Revival and Performance
12.00 - 12.30 - Fay Hield : Tradition and Community in the Contemporary English Folk Singing Scene (or, In Defence of Revivals)
12.30 - 1.00 - Paul Wilson : Where's your musical heart?
Sunday Afternoon
(1) The Music
2.00 - 2.30 - Lewis Jones : Modal Scales in English Folk Song: An Analysis with reference to the Butterworth MSS
2.30 - 3.00 - Gwilym Davies : The tunes of the Brazil gypsy family from Gloucestershire
3.00 - 3.30 - Paul Wilson : Sabine's Tunes
TEA
4.00 - 4.30 - Vic Gammon : How good a music transcriber was Cecil Sharp?
4.30 - 5.00 - Julia C. Bishop : In the Mode? Mode Theory and the Tonality of English Folk Song