English Folksongs Southern Appalachians-reissued

Subject: Sharp is Back!
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 16 Jun 12 - 01:29 PM

CAMSCO Music is delighted to announce that the Sharp/Kearpeles masterpiece "English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians" is back in print.This is the 1932 edition, which has been out of print since 1951; its two volumes include two hundred and seventy-four
Songs and Ballads with nine hundred and sixty-eight Tunes, including thirty-nine Tunes contributed by Olive Dame Campbell.
Edited by Maud Karpeles, with a new introduction by Sheila Kay Adams.
Softcover: $25 per volume; hardcover $35
AS with all of CAMSCO's publications, we'll be printing in both the US and the UK, eliminating transatlantic shipping costs.
you can order from [e-mail] or by phone at 800/548-FOLK<3655>

Subject: RE: Sharp is Back!
From: Mary Humphreys
Date: 16 Jun 12 - 02:29 PM

Will you be publishing it as a CD-Rom?

Subject: RE: Sharp is Back!
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 16 Jun 12 - 04:17 PM

Not for a while.

Subject: English Folksongs Southern Appalachians
From: Owen Woodson
Date: 04 Oct 12 - 06:01 AM

Apologies if this duplicates any previous posts. However I've just opened Musical Traditions magazine to find the following note on its news page.

"Camsco Music have just re-issued Sharp's English Folk Songs in the Southern Appalachians (1932 edition in 2 volumes, with a new introduction by Sheila Kay Adams), priced $25 per volume soft cover / $35 hard cover. They're available from their website: www.camscomusic.com - though they're printed in the UK, minimising transit costs and eliminating import duty."

This is phenomenal news indeed, and has got to be the most important thing which Camsco has done since they republished Bronson's Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads a couple of years ago.

Subject: RE: English Folksongs Southern Appalachians
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)
Date: 04 Oct 12 - 08:50 AM

Owen

There was an earlier announcement in June this year: Sharp is Back! (though the thread didn't attract much attention - perhaps everyone has a copy!).

Mick

Subject: RE: English Folksongs Southern Appalachians
From: Reinhard
Date: 04 Oct 12 - 01:02 PM

That thread did attract enough attention for me to buy these wonderful books.

Subject: RE: English Folksongs Southern Appalachians-reissued
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Oct 12 - 02:33 AM

I bought a musty, used copy of this two-volume set just before I found out about the reissue. I saw the books at the Getaway. They look great. Wish I had known about the CAMSCO reissue a bit earlier.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: English Folksongs Southern Appalachians-reissued
From: justice
Date: 15 Oct 12 - 10:09 PM

Just received Sharp's English Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachains from Dick, and it's a beautiful job of printing. I got the hardcover, and it's well worth the few extra bucks over the softcover. And I found out about them on this thread. They're here.

Subject: RE: English Folksongs Southern Appalachians-reissued
From: DMcG
Date: 16 Oct 12 - 07:41 AM

I made them top of my birthday list recently. They are well worth having, and Sharp's introduction is very informative. In fact, all the introductory material is worth reading and pondering. Sharp's views of the negative aspects of an education system that is only concerned with suitability for subsequent employment certainly chimed with my own!

Subject: RE: English Folksongs Southern Appalachians-reissued
From: foggers
Date: 16 Oct 12 - 05:47 PM

Oooooo one for the Xmas prezzie list!

Subject: RE: English Folksongs Southern Appalachians-reissued
From: Jane of 'ull
Date: 17 Oct 12 - 02:52 PM

Thank you for reminding me about this book. It's in my local library but I'd forgotten the title.