Part anthology, part social history, this book explores the relationship between popular song and the events in Britain over the last 400 years that rise to it. On subjects as diverse as crime, war, love, disarmament, politics, and industry, song has always been a vehicle for the expression of popular feeling, often as the voice of the minority or oppressed. Concentrating on the overlapping categories of oral songs, street ballads, and the work of singer/songwriters who employ a traditional idiom, the book presents fifty-four songs in full (forty with music), quotations from many others, a bibliography and discography, and numerous illustrations including facsimile ballads, engravings, and photographs of contemporary scenes.

The Sound of History: Songs and Social Comment

PALMER, Roy

Oxford University Press

120 ballads and their tunes from all corners of the UK. From traditional songs to the street and music hall, they are a huge part of the popular culture.

Everyman's Book of British Ballads

Arts & Photography

Music

J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd.

Folk Music in School (Resources of Music, Series Number 15)

vi 162p green cloth, dustjacket, index, musical examples in text, essays by A L Lloyd, Pat Palmer, Sandra Kerr, a well preserved copy from a Cambridge college library

Children's Books

Leach, Robert

Arts, Music & Photography

Cambridge University Press

vi 162p large paperback. index, musical examples in text, essays by A L Lloyd, Pat Palmer, Sandra Kerr, very good copy from a Cambridge college library

This wide-ranging survey, part-anthology, part-social history provides a unique study of popular song. Tender or harsh, fleeting or long-remembered, song has always been a vehicle for the expression of popular feeling, often as the voice of the oppressed or of those in opposition to the power fo the State. It has won high praise:'Magical . . . These popular songs tell us of life's pleasures and pains from the cradle to the grave, of work and play, sport and sex, loving and leaving, the town and the country . . . A book both heart-rending and heart-warming. It is Palmer's achievement to attune our ears to the sounds of the past.' Roy Porter in the Sunday Times

The Sound of History

Faber&Faber

When first published in 1979 no less an authority than Bob Copper described this collection as 'without doubt . . . the finest book of English traditional songs that has come my way in a very long time'. Just under one hundred and fifty songs are collected and arranged in seven different categories: 'Fellows that Follow the Plough Work', 'A Health to the Master: Deference and Protest', 'The High Gallows Tree: Crime', 'Once I loved a Lass: Courtship', 'The Charmig Bride: Marriage', 'Up To The Rigs: Sport and Diversion' and 'The Life of a Man: Seasons and Ceremonies'. As Roy Palmer concludes in his own introduction, 'Yet in the final analysis, it could be argued that the songs' final justification is aesthetic. They have a sheer beauty of language which both refleced and helped to shape the utterance of generations of Englishmen, men like Shakespeare, Crabbe, John Clare, Wordsworth, Hardy, John Arden, as well as the countless thousands of ploughmen, shepherds, blacksmiths, milkmaids and servant girls who were the backbone of the nation. Their full power emerges, however, not on the page but on the lips. I hope they will be savoured, but above all sung'.

English Country Songbook

Faber and Faber

Londres. 25 cm. 192 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Idioma inglés. Contiene ilustraciones en blanco y negro.. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario.

Ballad History of England

David&Charles

The folklore of Warwickshire (The folklore of the British Isles)

Batsford

The Folklore of Gloucestershire [Sep 01, 2001] Palmer, Marilyn and Palmer, Roy

Folklore of Gloucester

History

World

Tempus Pub Ltd

Focusing on Leicestershire and Rutland in central England, this book examines the folklore of the area, such as the seasonal customs, traditions, rituals, and taboos.

Folklore of Leicestershire and Rutland

Europe

Tempus

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The Sound of History: Songs and Social Comment

Everyman's Book of British Ballads

Folk Music in School (Resources of Music, Series Number 15)

Folk Music in School (Resources of Music, Series Number 15)

The Sound of History

English Country Songbook

Ballad History of England

The folklore of Warwickshire (The folklore of the British Isles)

Folklore of Gloucester

Folklore of Leicestershire and Rutland