Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Impact of Ossian: Johann Gottfried Herder's Literary Legacy
- Chapter 2 On Robert Burns: Enlightenment, Mythology and the Folkloric
- Chapter 3 The Classical Form of the Nation: The Convergence of Greek and Folk Forms in Czech and Russian Literature in the 1810s
- Chapter 4 Literary Metamorphoses and the Reframing of Enchantment: The Scottish Song and Folktale Collections of R. H. Cromek, Allan Cunningham and Robert Chambers
- Chapter 5 Thomas Moore, Daniel Maclise and the New Mythology: The Origin of the Harp
- Chapter 6 The Oral Ballad and the Printed Poem in the Portuguese Romantic Movement: The Case of J. M. da Costa e Silva's Isabel ou a Heroina de Aragom
- Chapter 7 Class, Nation and the German Folk Revival: Heinrich Heine, Georg Büchner and Georg Weerth
- Chapter 8 The Estonian National Epic, Kalevipoeg: Its Sources and Inception
- Chapter 9 The Latvian Era of Folk Awakening: From Johann Gottfried Herder's Volkslieder to the Voice of an Emergent Nation
- Chapter 10 From Folklore to Folk Law: William Morris and the Popular Sources of Legal Authority
- Chapter 11 Pioneers, Friends, Rivals: Social Networks and the English Folk-Song Revival, 1889–1904
- Chapter 12 The Bosnian Vila: Folklore and Orientalism in the Fiction of Robert Michel
- Epilogue: The Persistence of Revival
- Bibliography
- Index
- List of Contributors
Chapter 11 - Pioneers, Friends, Rivals: Social Networks and the English Folk-Song Revival, 1889–1904
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2012
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Impact of Ossian: Johann Gottfried Herder's Literary Legacy
- Chapter 2 On Robert Burns: Enlightenment, Mythology and the Folkloric
- Chapter 3 The Classical Form of the Nation: The Convergence of Greek and Folk Forms in Czech and Russian Literature in the 1810s
- Chapter 4 Literary Metamorphoses and the Reframing of Enchantment: The Scottish Song and Folktale Collections of R. H. Cromek, Allan Cunningham and Robert Chambers
- Chapter 5 Thomas Moore, Daniel Maclise and the New Mythology: The Origin of the Harp
- Chapter 6 The Oral Ballad and the Printed Poem in the Portuguese Romantic Movement: The Case of J. M. da Costa e Silva's Isabel ou a Heroina de Aragom
- Chapter 7 Class, Nation and the German Folk Revival: Heinrich Heine, Georg Büchner and Georg Weerth
- Chapter 8 The Estonian National Epic, Kalevipoeg: Its Sources and Inception
- Chapter 9 The Latvian Era of Folk Awakening: From Johann Gottfried Herder's Volkslieder to the Voice of an Emergent Nation
- Chapter 10 From Folklore to Folk Law: William Morris and the Popular Sources of Legal Authority
- Chapter 11 Pioneers, Friends, Rivals: Social Networks and the English Folk-Song Revival, 1889–1904
- Chapter 12 The Bosnian Vila: Folklore and Orientalism in the Fiction of Robert Michel
- Epilogue: The Persistence of Revival
- Bibliography
- Index
- List of Contributors
Summary
The first English folk-song revival is usually dated from the late 1870s to the end of the 1920s, key markers being the publication of Harriet Mason's Nursery Rhymes and Country Songs in 1878 and Maud Karpeles's second collecting trip to Newfoundland in 1930. The names most associated with the revival in the public mind are probably those of Cecil Sharp, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Percy Grainger, although, of course, there were many other collectors and scholars who made substantial contributions to the movement. Sharp, Vaughan Williams and Grainger were the most prominent figures in the Edwardian phase of the revival during the decade before World War I. The late-Victorian phase is less well known, but three different figures stand out as the pioneers and leaders of the movement in those earlier decades: Sabine Baring-Gould, Frank Kidson and Lucy Broadwood. Although a certain changing of the guard took place within the movement at the end of the Victorian era, Kidson and Broadwood in fact remained key players in the Edwardian years, so there was more continuity than might at first glance appear. Nevertheless, the history of the movement does fall into three distinct periods, late-Victorian, Edwardian and post-1914. Moreover, the Victorian phase also divides into two parts: an initial period when a small number of pioneer collectors were working in isolation, and a later period when they came together to exchange information and to found the Folk-Song Society.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Voice of the PeopleWriting the European Folk Revival, 1760–1914, pp. 171 - 188Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2012