EDS Vol 42 No 2

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Cover: Dr Russell Wortley

Contents

[edit] SPECIAL FEATURES

[edit] SONGS OF A SHANTYMAN

Roy Palmer looks at the life and songs of Captain John Robinson.

[edit] THE BOLDEN LAD TAPES

John Tchalenko examines the nature of traditional music through the recorded speech of Bob Davenport and Tom Ford

[edit] THE MAN THAT WROTE 'THE MAN THAT WATERS THE WORKERS BEER'

A note on 'Paddy Ryan', the composer of the song, by Roy Palmer.

[edit] A CUMBRIAN SWORD DANCE

A descriptive extract taken from the Cumberland Paquet (1788) by Keith Gregson.

[edit] ODDS AND ENDS

Early newspaper cuttings;'LORNA"S FANCY", a jig from Nicholas Driver; photos of the Eynsham Mummers, Kentish Hoodeners and Sam Bennett's 'Broom Dance'; two songs:Windy Old Weather and Three Jolly Hoodening Boys.

[edit] SING US ONE OF THE OLD SONGS

Peter Charlton writes about the Connection between the Music Hall and the Folk Revival.

[edit] THREE NEW HAMPSHIRE CONTRAS

Collected by Roy Dommett and Tubby Reynolds on a recent American trip.

[edit] THEY REMEMBERED

A list of bequests left to the Society by members.

[edit] OBITUARIES

George Belton

Mervyn Vincent

Albert Glenwright

Russell Wortley

Elsie Whiteman


[edit] REGULAR FEATURES

[edit] MORRIS WORKSHOP

'Morris Dancers in Crewe before the First World War' by Theresa Buckland and Dan Howison.

[edit] RESEARCH INDEX

[edit] CORRESPONDENCE

[edit] REVIEWS

Books and Records.


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