Introducing our new library series, Folk Uncovered: Online Courses - the first one Folk Song in England with Steve Roud is a six week online course on Thursday evenings from 1 May.
Join Steve, creator of the Roud Folk Song Index, with the English Folk Dance and Song Society, for this series of six evening online seminars on the social history of traditional song and singing in England up to about 1950 (when the post-war Folk Revival changed things dramatically).
This is a unique opportunity to learn from an expert in his field.
What will I learn?
Topics to be covered will include the changing definitions of ‘folk song’ over the last 200 years, the legacy of the early collectors such as Cecil Sharp and Ralph Vaughan Williams, and what the ‘folk’ themselves thought about their songs.
We will listen to archive recordings and examine printed broadsides, consider female sailors and murdered sweethearts, and much more.
The course is suitable for beginners and those already interested in the subject - and no singing will be required!
When and where is the course?
Online sessions take place every Thursday at 7.30pm (BST):
1 May
8 May
15 May
22 May
29 May
5 June
The sessions will take place on Zoom, and be recorded and available to watch for any bookers unable to attend a session live. Details and links to join the sessions will be sent to all those registered in due course.
*Concession price available for people in full-time education, in receipt of Job Seeker's Allowance; in receipt of Income-Based Benefit (such as Income Support, Housing or Council Tax Benefit, Working Tax Credit, Pension Credit)
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