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LISA NULL Sad news about Lisa, well known to many of us from Zoom. Thanks to John Baxter for forwarding this. |
Our new FTJ logo, thanks to John Crane who has kindly modified this from his original drawing for our Book End Folk Books logo more than 40 years ago!
See right, A Notorious Chaunter in B Flat and Other Characters in Street Literature
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🄵🅃🄹 Folklife Traditions Journal, www.folklife-traditions.uk UPDATES
Our aims include stimulating a wider interest in folk studies & folk culture: FTJ pages Researched articles + archive, new, on a separate website. Folk studies and cultural traditions. Membership welcome but not required. Call for articles for next issue. Readers tell us how much they enjoy these articles - so we would like to expand our Journal pages ! If we had more articles, then we could make the Journal available separately, as well as part of FW. 1. Researched articles about a collected song or tune, word limits: no minimum - we get articles which are anything from just a song and a few lines or up to 500 words; other articles are often 1000 to 1500, our maximum is 2500 words. 2. To introduce society, institution, etc, up to 1000 words. Thereafter, short news items/dates from society, institutions welcome; longer items, please consult editor.
PUBLICATIONS A Notorious Chaunter in B Flat and Other Characters in Street Literature, edited by David Atkinson and Steve Roud. Paperback 193pp., ISBN 978-1-9161424-4-2. The Ballad Partners; only from www.theballadpartners.co.uk/publications UK £13 + £2.95 p&p. Non-UK please email info<at>theballadpartners.co.uk Covering a huge range of topics including the ballad trade and ballad singers from Dublin to Tewkesbury, the role of cheap print in political song and dissemination of news, a highwayman and even The Titanic. Contents: A Notorious Chaunter in B Flat (1837) Introduction by Steve Roud; A ‘Dark Man’ of Dublin Songs: Finding Joseph Sadler - Catherine Ann Cullen; ‘Three Acres and a Cow’: Political Song in the General Election of 1885 - John Baxter ; Valentine or Alan Tyne? Untangling the History of a Highwayman Ballad - Martin Nail; The Aberdeen Ballad Broadsides of 1775/6 - David Atkinson; Samuel Harward: Ballad and Chapbook Printer in Tewkesbury, Gloucester, and Cheltenham - David Atkinson; Becoming Vellamo’s Brother: Finnish Broadside Ballads about the Titanic Disaster - Silja Vuorikuru; Street Cred: Teaching the History of News Ballads and Broadsides to Journalism Students - Harry Browne; George Nicholson’s Literary Miscellany: Assembling a Mechanics’ Modernity - Gary Kelly Thomas Sabine and Son: Street Literature and Cheap Print at the End of the Eighteenth Century - David Atkinson The Ballad Partners is a not-for-profit publishing company set up in 2018. It aims to publish conference papers and books on traditional song, music, dance and customs in order to raise awareness and encourage the study of the folk arts. Publications will interest anyone with an interest in song and performance culture, social history, book history and popular reading and literacy. |
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