Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland
by MacColl, Ewan; Seeger, Peggy
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- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0710084366
- ISBN 13
- 9780710084361
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About This Item
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul , 1977 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The Travellers, from those living in bow-tents and horse-drawn caravans to those dwelling in motor caravans and permanent homes, are an important source of traditional music. Their society means that songs that have died out in more settled communities are preserved among them. Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, widely known as two of the founding singers of the British and American folk revivals, here display a vast fund of folklore scholarship around the songs of British travelling people. Resulting from extensive collecting in southern and southeastern England and central and northeastern Scotland in the 1960s and 70s, this book contains 130 songs with music and comprehensive notes relating them to folkloristic and historical points of interest. It includes traditional ballads and ballads of broadside origin, bawdy, tragic and humorous songs about love, work and death. Most are in English or in Scots dialect with four in Anglo-Romani.387p. bibliography.index.
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- Bookseller
- KALAMOS BOOKS (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 038162
- Title
- Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland
- Author
- MacColl, Ewan; Seeger, Peggy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0710084366
- ISBN 13
- 9780710084361
- Publisher
- Routledge & Kegan Paul
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- folk music songs england scotland english scottish trevallers tinkers gypsies romani
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