Who Were the Folk? The Demography of Cecil Sharp's Somerset Folk Singers

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8955775
AutoresC J Bearman (Chelmsford and Essex Hospital, autor de correspondencia)
Año2000
Volumen43
Número3
Páginas751-775
Fecha de publicación2000-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Historical Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0018246x99001338
OpenAlexW2083322789
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10

The folk music movement was among the most important influences on English cultural life in the years immediately before 1914. Its major figure, both in terms of volume of material collected and published, and in terms of organization and publicity, was Cecil Sharp. Historical understanding of the movement and modern appreciation of the material have been hampered by a Marxist orthodoxy which sees folk music as the cultural property of the working class and which attempts to discredit the folk music collectors, particularly Sharp. This article summarizes the trends in scholarship and employs the first biographical survey of a large group of folk singers to challenge the Marxist interpretation

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Folk culture · Folk music · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Literature · Marxist philosophy · Musical · Orthodoxy · Political science · Publicity · Scholarship · Sociology · Anthropology · History · Law · Music History and Culture · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Philosophy · Theater, Performance, and Music History