1st Edition

Village Song & Culture A Study Based on the Blunt Collection of Song from Adderbury North Oxfordshire

By Michael Pickering Copyright 1982
    202 Pages
    by Routledge

    202 Pages
    by Routledge

    Originally published in 1982. The songs on which this study is based were once vibrant in the throats and ears and minds of living people. This book examines the songs and their meanings in relation to the lives of those people, and relates them to the cultural tradition and practice of which they were an integral part. The art of village song represents a sense of cohesiveness and mutual identity around local patterns of kinship, social groupings, territorial orientations and cultural relationships. The actual ways in which songs were part of village life is of course highly problematic, but this book endeavours, most of all, to present an understanding of the place of song in the social life of villagers.

    Introduction 1. Singing on the Rounds 2. Song and Social Assembly 3. The Flowing Bowl 4. With Jockey to the Fair 5. Three Women 6. Song and Singing Tradition

    Biography

    Michael Pickering