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05 Apr 03 - 12:01 AM (#926522) Subject: singers from whom they collected From: Stephen R. I am looking for information on the singers from whom the noted folksong collectors of a century ago took down their songs: Lucy Broadwood, C#, George Butterfield, George Gardiner, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and the others of that generation. Sabine Baring-Gould describes some of his singers, but often nothing more is given than the date of collection, place of collection, singer's name and age--or even less than that, or nothing at all. References to any published sources will be appreciated. Stephen |
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05 Apr 03 - 01:12 AM (#926535) Subject: RE: singers from whom they collected From: Nerd Stephen, For C#, check out the musical traditions website Musical Traditions They have a couple of articles by Mike Yates about C#'s collection activities, which I believe has information about individual singers. Also, be skeptical of any statistics you hear about C#'s singers (80% from villages, 20% from towns, for example). Yates has shown that many of the ones used by such critics as Dave Harker are bogus. |
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06 Apr 03 - 08:55 PM (#927540) Subject: Origins: Singers who sang for collectors From: Stephen R. Well, I tried this last week and the thread vanished. So I will try again. I am looking for information on the singers whose versions were collected by the early figures of the movement in the last decade of the 19th century and down to, say, the Second World War. Some (Baring-Gould, for example) provided a fair amount of information about their singers, but all too often there is only the basic format: place and date collected, singer's name and age; or even less than that. But there are some published records about these things, and I would be grateful for any references. Stephen R. |
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06 Apr 03 - 09:34 PM (#927555) Subject: RE: singers from whom they collected From: Malcolm Douglas Your original thread was still here (it's been amalgamated with the new one now), but only those which have been added to in the last day or so remain on the main page. Click on your name at the head of your post, and you'll see a list of all the previous posts you've made under that name. You don't make it clear what information you already have access to; but (assuming that you don't already know) I'd recommend -for a start- the Journals of the Folk Song Society and their successors (1899 to the present). Many collectors didn't keep a lot of details about their informants, but there's plenty to be had about people such as Henry Burstow (who also published an autobiography) and Henry Hills; and the Norfolk singers from the Sutton/Stalham area found by Moeran, Vaughan Williams et al. are reasonably well documented. I assume from your recent posts that you are fairly well-informed; if you don't want to be told things you already know, you probably need to be a bit more specific. |