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VWML Lectures: December 2016 - March 2017

: Friday, 25 November 2016 09:00

After the highly successful first Library Lecture series, the VWML is pleased to announce its second series of evening lectures covering folk song, music, and folklore, presented by expert guest speakers.

Recipients of the Malcolm Taylor grant for Folk Collections announced

: Wednesday, 14 September 2016 10:32

We are delighted to announce two recipients of the inaugural Malcolm Taylor Grant for Folk Collections.

Cecil Sharp collects his first Appalachian song

: Thursday, 28 July 2016 09:43

On this day one hundred years ago, Cecil Sharp and Maud Karpeles noted down their first Appalachian song, beginning a musical journey that would span three years, and the effects of which continue to greatly impact the Appalachian folk song tradition and its study today.

Call for papers: The Histories of Morris in Britain

: Monday, 27 June 2016 11:59

Organised in partnership by The Historical Dance Society with The English Folk Dance and Song Society and The Morris Ring, The Morris Federation, Open Morris.

The focus of the conference is morris dancing within the Britain and beyond and its history up to recent times. As an enduring feature of British culture across more than six centuries, research in, and understanding, appreciation and practice of, our vernacular dance genre is worth celebrating. We invite contributions from practitioners and scholars to this two-day event to share practice, archival research, oral history and local custom. This may be in the form of papers and talks for 30 minute slots to include discussion time, or workshops of 90 minutes, or posters. We hope to publish selected papers in a volume of proceedings.

Appalachian Weekender at Cecil Sharp House

: Tuesday, 24 May 2016 17:50

Pastoralism and modernity in the southern mountains: a centenary symposium on Cecil Sharp's 1916 Appalachian journey.

2016 marks the centenary of song collector and folklorist Cecil Sharp's Appalachian fieldtrip, an event that shaped both North American and European conceptions of the history and culture of the southern mountains of America. To celebrate, Cecil Sharp House is hosting a weekend of Appalachian music and a conference exploring the culture of the region.

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VWML Lectures: December 2016 - March 2017

Recipients of the Malcolm Taylor grant for Folk Collections announced

Cecil Sharp collects his first Appalachian song

Call for papers: The Histories of Morris in Britain

Appalachian Weekender at Cecil Sharp House

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Cecil Sharp's English Folk Song: Some Conclusions