Biographies of folksong collectors

Subject: Biographies of folksong collectors
From: Phillip
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 10:07 AM

Can anyone help me identify a book I half remember seeing a reference to in a bibliography somewhere? It contained brief biographies of collectors in England (and Scotland?) at the end of the 19th and start of the 20th century - I know no more than that now. Any ideas would be welcome.

rgds

Phillip

Subject: RE: Biographies of folksong collectors
From: Folkiedave
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 11:05 AM

Dave Harker's Book "Fakelore" certainly contains Dave's own sometimes idiosyncratic view of them.

Sadly out of print and very much in demand on the second hand market.
(I speak as a specialist send hand dealer).

Subject: RE: Biographies of folksong collectors
From: Folkiedave
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 11:06 AM

That should read "specialist second hand dealer in books on folk music".

Subject: RE: Biographies of folksong collectors
From: MartinRyan
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 11:31 AM

Cheapskate! Isn't it usually "an arm and a leg" these book dealers demand?!

Regards

Subject: RE: Biographies of folksong collectors
From: GUEST,Karen Kaplan
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 12:03 PM

The following may not be the one you are looking for, but then again...

Hustvedt, Sigurd B., Ballad Books and Ballad Men, Harvard University Press, 1930

Subject: RE: Biographies of folksong collectors
From: Phillip
Date: 26 Mar 07 - 02:43 AM

Thanks Karen, I don't thik it is the right one, though. However, Ballad Books and Ballad Men is available to read online on questia.com. (If anyone should fancy reading several hundred pages online!)

Subject: RE: Biographies of folksong collectors
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Mar 07 - 05:41 PM

2 spring to mind
The British Folklorist by Richard Dorson pub RKP 1968
and
Anglo American Folksong Scholarship since 1898 D.K. Wilgus pub Rutgers 1959The Dorson was remaindered years ago at £1-50 per vol - but that was a long time ago
Dorson's Peasant Customs and Savage Myths also has a substantial list of researchers,
Good luck,
Jim Carroll