A widely publicised progressive shift has been re-shaping the English folk movement in recent years. Peter’s talk commences by addressing matters of terminology around folk, Folklore, the folk movement, Folkloristics and the folkloresque. He then employs a range of sub-headings (hauntology and folk, Folklore and the folkloresque, anti-Folklore folk, fine art into folk) to ponder and celebrate these developments. The talk concludes by asking whether this creative, practice-based movement might best be understood in terms of contemporary folklore studies, or rather as a vital post-folk artistic movement.
Dr Peter Harrop is a currently dormant rapper-sword dancer and Professor Emeritus in Drama at the University of Chester. He is author of Mummers’ Plays Revisited, (Routledge, 2020); Contributing co-editor of The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance, (Routledge, 2021), runner up for the Folklore Society Katherine Briggs Award, and editor of Staging, Playing, Pyrotechnics and Magic: Conventions of Performance in Early English Theatre by Philip Butterworth, (Routledge, 2022). His most recent article, ‘Morris, Sword and Northern Soul: Grappling with Folk’, will appear in Folk Music Journal 12:5, 2024.
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