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The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance

The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance

Harrop, Peter
Roud, Steve

Paperback

Series: Routledge Companions

DanceCountry & FolkTheater History

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ISBN10: 1032021969
ISBN13: 9781032021966
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 9 2023
Pages: 596
Language: English

This broad-based collection of essays is an introduction both to the concerns of contemporary folklore scholarship and to the variety of forms that folk performance has taken throughout English history.

Combining case studies of specific folk practices with discussion of the various different lenses through which they have been viewed since becoming the subject of concerted study in Victorian times, this book builds on the latest work in an ever-growing body of contemporary folklore scholarship. Many of the contributing scholars are also practicing performers and bring experience and understanding of performance to their analyses and critiques. Chapters range across the spectrum of folk song, music, drama and dance, but maintain a focus on the key defining characteristics of folk performance - custom and tradition - in a full range of performances, from carol singing and sword dancing to playground rhymes and mummers' plays.

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