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Call for papers—Traditional Folk Song: Past, Present & Future

: Thursday, 17 May 2018 13:53

Saturday 10 to Sunday 11 November 2018

Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent’s Park Road, London NW1 7AY

Folk song, the everyday music of the common people as passed from generation to generation, has been highly debated ever since the first attempts by early collectors to define it. It has been performed, collected, researched, and unpicked, and the defining qualities which make it unique continue to stimulate current debate and approaches to collecting.

Vaughan Williams Memorial Library to create a Folk Song Subject Index

: Thursday, 19 April 2018 17:20

Have you ever wanted to find folk songs about sea battles, or unrequited love, or ghosts?

The English Folk Dance and Song Society’s Vaughan Williams Memorial Library (VWML) is undertaking a substantial new project to index, for the first time, what folk songs are about.

Folk collection returns ‘back home’ to new audiences

: Tuesday, 27 March 2018 11:03

A renowned folk collection that was recorded around Britain over seventy-five years ago and has been stored in America ever since has been brought to new online audiences, thanks to a project led by the University of Aberdeen’s Elphinstone Institute in partnership with the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS).

Job vacancy: Archivist

: Wednesday, 21 February 2018 12:45

The English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) is offering an exciting opportunity for a committed archives and records management professional to join the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library as Archivist.

Photograph courtesy of Peter Perry. The fiddler is Richard Sharp of the Boxgrove Tipteers and the ladies are dancing ‘The Black Nag’ in the garden of Richard Sharp’s house in Chichester.

Call for Papers: Locating Women in 'The Folk'

: Thursday, 07 December 2017 15:54

Perspectives on women's contributions to folk song, folklore and cultural traditions

Saturday 9 June 2018, University of Sussex

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Call for papers—Traditional Folk Song: Past, Present & Future

Vaughan Williams Memorial Library to create a Folk Song Subject Index

Folk collection returns ‘back home’ to new audiences

Job vacancy: Archivist

Call for Papers: Locating Women in 'The Folk'

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Cecil Sharp's English Folk Song: Some Conclusions