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  • The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs

    by Julia Bishop, Steve Roud ...
    One of the Spectator's Books of the Year 2012'Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladiesFarewell and adieu to you ladies of SpainFor we've received orders for to sail for old EnglandBut we hope in a short while to see you again'**One of the great English popular art forms, the folk song can be painful, satirical, erotic, dramatic, rueful or funny. They have thrived when sung on a whim to a ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • As I Walked Out

    Sabine Baring-Gould and the Search for the Folk Songs of Devon and Cornwall

    by Martin Graebe, Steve Roud ...
    Shortly before his death, the Devonshire-born cleric, writer and antiquarian, Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) wrote: ‘To this day I consider that the recovery of our West Country melodies has been the principal achievement of my life.’ Though there have been a number of biographies of this Victorian polymath, none has looked in detail at his role as a leading figure in the English folk song.Most ... Read more

    $11.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Penguin Guide to the Superstitions of Britain and Ireland

    by Steve Roud ...
    Are black cats lucky or unlucky? What should you do when you hear the first cuckoo? Since when have people believed that it's unlucky to shoot an albatross? Why does breaking a mirror lead to misfortune? This fascinating collection answers these and many other questions about the world of superstitions and forms an endlessly browsable guide to a subject that continues to obsess and intrigue. ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • Cheap Print and Street Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century

    by David Atkinson ...
    This deeply researched collection offers a comprehensive introduction to the eighteenth-century trade in street literature – ballads, chapbooks, and popular prints – in England and Scotland. Offering detailed studies of a selection of the printers, types of publication, and places of publication that constituted the cheap and popular print trade during the period, these essays delve into ballads, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The English Year

    by Steve Roud ...
    This enthralling book will take you, month-by-month, day-by-day, through all the festivities of English life. From national celebrations such as New Year’s Eve to regional customs such as the Padstow Hobby Horse procession, cheese rolling in Gloucestershire and Easter Monday bottle kicking in Leeds, it explains how they originated, what they mean and when they occur.A fascinating guide to the ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

  • Folk Song in England

    by Steve Roud ...
    In Victorian times, England was famously dubbed the land without music - but one of the great musical discoveries of the early twentieth century was that England had a vital heritage of folk song and music which was easily good enough to stand comparison with those of other parts of Britain and overseas. Cecil Sharp, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Percy Grainger, and a number of other enthusiasts ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • A Dictionary of English Folklore

    by Jacqueline Simpson, Steve Roud ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
    Are there any legends about cats? Is Cinderella an English story? What is a Mumming Play? The subject of folklore covers an extremely wide field, with connections to virtually every aspect of life. It ranges from the bizarre to the seemingly mundane. Similarly, folklore is as much a feature of the modern technological age as the ancient world, of every part of the country, both urban and rural, ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • London Lore

    The legends and traditions of the world's most vibrant city

    by Steve Roud ...
    In which part of North London were wild beasts once thought to roam the sewers?Why did 1920s working-class Londoners wear necklaces of blue beads?Who was the original inspiration for the 'pearly king' costume?And did Spring-heeled Jack, scourge of Victorian London, ever really exist?Exploring everything from local superstitions and ghost stories to annual customs, this is an enchanting guide to ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

  • The Lore of the Playground

    One hundred years of children's games, rhymes and traditions

    by Steve Roud ...
    From conkers to marbles, from British Bulldog to tag, not forgetting 'one potato, two potato' and 'eeny, meeny, miny, mo', The Lore of the Playground looks at the games children have enjoyed, the rhymes they have chanted and the rituals and traditions they have observed over the past hundred years and more.Each generation, it emerges, has had its own favourites - hoops and tops in the 1930s, ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance

    Edited by Peter Harrop, Steve Roud ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    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 ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America

    The Interface between Print and Oral Traditions

    by David Atkinson, Steve Roud ...
    In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research into ’street literature’ - that is, the cheap printed broadsides and chapbooks that poured from the presses of jobbing printers from the late sixteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth. Not only are some traditional singers known to have learned songs from ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Monday's Child is Fair of Face

    and Other Traditional Beliefs about Babies and Motherhood

    by Steve Roud ...
    Pregnancy and childbirth remains a mystical and magical time, characterised by feelings of hope, uncertainty and worry. No matter how many scientific innovations come along, there's still room for home-grown beliefs and traditions handed down through the family. Couples buying a pram may still ask for it to be delivered after the birth, and some grandparents will shrink from tickling the baby's ... Read more

    $11.59 USD