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Chapter 11 - Pioneers, Friends, Rivals: Social Networks and the English Folk-Song Revival, 1889–1904

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2012

E. David Gregory
Affiliation:
Athabasca University, Canada
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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.

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The Voice of the People
Writing the European Folk Revival, 1760–1914
, pp. 171 - 188
Publisher: Anthem Press
Print publication year: 2012

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