Ewan MacColl - The Song Carriers

Subject: Ewan MacColl - The Song Carriers
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Apr 12 - 12:10 PM

The Song Carriers - Ewan MacColl

1   Comparison of Styles.
2   Style.
3   Expertise.
4   Humour.
5   Ceremony.
6   Ornamentation.
7   Variants.
8   Work.
9   Characterisation and Reality.
10 The Best.

http://www.mediafire.com/?7lc29ei70wbyf

Subject: RE: Ewan MacColl - The Song Carriers
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 02 Apr 12 - 12:19 PM

Well worth a listen

Subject: RE: Ewan MacColl - The Song Carriers
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Apr 12 - 12:26 PM

Does anyone have the original transmission dates please?

Subject: RE: Ewan MacColl - The Song Carriers
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 02 Apr 12 - 01:13 PM

What an amazing collection of stuff!

L in C#

Subject: RE: Ewan MacColl - The Song Carriers
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 02 Apr 12 - 01:51 PM

Transmission of no 1
Thursday, 28th January 1965, 7.00-

Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: Ewan MacColl - The Song Carriers
From: Vic Smith
Date: 03 Apr 12 - 04:22 AM

The ten programmes were brought out on CD by an ex-member of the Critics Group* and sold at folk festivals around five years ago. I bought a set at Whitby.

* I won't name that person in case there are legal/copyright issues.

Subject: RE: Ewan MacColl - The Song Carriers
From: ChrisJBrady
Date: 03 Apr 12 - 05:11 AM

In one of the Wikis' articles on English Folk Music (Wiki, Folkopedia, Folkipeadia, whatever) there's a delightful story (maybe apocryphal) of Ewan MacColl making frequent research visits to the BBC or maybe the National Sound Archives. There he discovered wonderful field recordings and made copies of them. Then he went home and made copies for anyone who was interested in them. I love that story - these recordings need to be out in the public domain instead of sitting mouldering away in some dusty archives.

The USA has shown the way with the immense Alan Lomax archives(*) going online. Is it too much to hope that the BBC and Natioanal Sound archives at the British Library might just put their archives online too?

(*) Incidentally the archives have some fascinating interviews between Lomax and MacColl.

Subject: RE: Ewan MacColl - The Song Carriers
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 21 Jan 18 - 01:45 PM

Just tried to download these and they seem to be empty files?
Cheers.

Subject: RE: Ewan MacColl - The Song Carriers
From: r.padgett
Date: 21 Jan 18 - 02:17 PM

I have a set~ mentioned in another thread somewhere on here

Time for another listen

Ray

Subject: RE: Ewan MacColl - The Song Carriers
From: Mark Ross
Date: 21 Jan 18 - 04:41 PM

Benjaminn Botkin said that the study of folklore consisted of digging up bones from one graveyard and then burying them in another.

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Ewan MacColl - The Song Carriers
From: DaveRo
Date: 22 Jan 18 - 01:45 AM

GUEST,Guest wrote: Just tried to download these and they seem to be empty files?

I just downloaded #1 OK.

Subject: RE: Ewan MacColl - The Song Carriers
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 22 Jan 18 - 03:43 AM

"Benjamin Botkin said that the study of folklore consisted of digging up bones from one graveyard and then burying them in another."
Pretty good summing up of what appears to be happening in the academic world nowadays - doesn't fit in to well with what Lomax and others who treated the folk arts with respect and realised their social importance managed to achieve though
Anybody looking for a set of the Song Carriers or other serious broadcasts on the subject, PM me
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: Ewan MacColl - The Song Carriers
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 20 Apr 26 - 07:21 AM

Jim has put these in a playlist on YouTube

The Song Carriers

1 - Comparison of Styles
2 - Singing Style
3 - Expertise in Folksong
4 - Humorous Songs
5 - Ritual & Ceremonial Songs
6 - Ornamentation & Variation
7 - Analogues & Variants
8 - Work
9 - Treatment of a Theme
10 - The Best

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLulaTxzRnD0rkOU9sLPIqLPDvsSEx3OLo

Subject: RE: Ewan MacColl - The Song Carriers
From: GUEST,The Sandman
Date: 23 Apr 26 - 06:47 PM

I think the most important aspect of this was that unaccompanied tradtonal songs were sung on national radio., BY Traditional singers
I disagree with one or two of his opinions about style,which he presents as if they were facts but are his opinions, nevertheless it was a marvelous programme