EFDSS Folk Song Conference 5/6 Oct 2013

Subject: EFDSS Folk Song Conference 5/6 Oct 2013
From: GUEST,Steve Roud
Date: 27 Sep 13 - 05:06 AM

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

Subject: RE: EFDSS Folk Song Conference 5/6 Oct 2013
From: doc.tom
Date: 27 Sep 13 - 09:46 AM

And the cost is ??????

Subject: RE: EFDSS Folk Song Conference 5/6 Oct 2013
From: GUEST,Derek Schofield
Date: 27 Sep 13 - 12:26 PM

The link gives the cost ....
Conference fee
£30 without lunch | £40 with lunch £25 without lunch | £35 with lunch (EFDSS/TSF members)

Derek

Subject: RE: EFDSS Folk Song Conference 5/6 Oct 2013
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Sep 13 - 06:30 PM

... and that fee includes Saturday evening concert / presentation 'Sharp's Appalachian Harvest'

Subject: RE: EFDSS Folk Song Conference 5/6 Oct 2013
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Sep 13 - 05:29 PM

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