Folk Song in England - Lloyd

Subject: RE: Folk Song in England - Lloyd
From: Lighter
Date: 26 Oct 11 - 10:30 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: Folk Song in England - Lloyd
From: BTNG
Date: 26 Oct 11 - 10:48 AM

Folk Song in England and my much used copy,(found in a used book store: cost, about a pound)of The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams and A.L. Lloyd, the perfect combination

Subject: RE: Folk Song in England - Lloyd
From: GUEST,matt milton
Date: 27 Oct 11 - 07:37 AM

seeing as someone's decided to refresh this old thread, it's probably worth pointing out that the book was brought back into print by Faber, as part of their print-on-demand range.

It's a great book. I wouldn't even call it an "academic" book: it's certainly not written in any kind of jargon or cant, and it doesn't really on theory in any programmatic or doctrinaire way. Meaning that there's a strong sense of the writer's own personality in there.

More importantly, it's wholly unpretentious. Academic writing today almost always has a sense of the author's self-importance: the author has something to prove, or a school to establish.

Subject: RE: Folk Song in England - Lloyd
From: The Sandman
Date: 16 Feb 25 - 06:00 AM

His scholarship need to be challenged, but any book that promotes songs has to be good

Subject: RE: Folk Song in England - Lloyd
From: r.padgett
Date: 20 Feb 25 - 12:10 PM

Pleased that his book was reprinted ~ I do not know if it is available any where
He lived the folk scholar of folk singers by doing and absorbing rather than relying pinching from other books and one of the originals ~ met him only one as I remember it

Ray