The cross-dressed heroine is one of the richest and most widespread narrative types in English folk song. Typically, a woman adopts male clothing to follow a lover, enlist in the army, go to sea, escape social constraints, or pursue adventure. Many of these songs celebrate her competence and courage rather than treating the disguise merely […]
Kategorie-Archive: British Folk
Warrior Women
Preface Dianne Dugaw: https://s.wayne.edu/warriorwomen/dugaws-catalogue/new-catalogue-introduction/ 113 Warrior Women Ballads: https://s.wayne.edu/warriorwomen/the-ballads/search-and-sort-the-ballads/
Categories I
Here’s a 30-category taxonomy of traditional English folk-song subjects, drawing on recurring themes found in broadside ballads, oral-tradition songs, and major collections such as those indexed by Roud and Child. # Category Typical Motifs 1 Courtship Wooing, persuasion, romantic pursuit 2 Faithful Lovers Separation, constancy, reunion 3 Unfaithful Lovers Betrayal, abandonment, broken promises 4 Love […]
Categories II
Below is a 30-category taxonomy with representative English folk songs. I’ve chosen titles that are widely collected in English oral tradition and that regularly appear in the Roud and Child canons. # Category Representative Songs 1 Courtship The Seeds of Love, Bushes and Briars, The Sweet Nightingale 2 Faithful Lovers The Loyal Lover, The Constant […]
Categories III
This 100-category system closely resembles how a folklorist might construct a topical index to the English repertoire. At an even finer level, one could expand this into 300-500 recurrent narrative motifs, aligning many of the categories with specific Child Ballads or Roud-index song families. Such a taxonomy becomes useful for comparative studies, showing, for example, […]
Wings
Wings Veröffentlicht am 2026-10-02 von admin Here are some excellent folk and traditional songs: For traditional British and Irish folk song, wings most often appear through birds as messengers, symbols of freedom, omens, or transformed lovers rather than as literal winged flight. Here are some notable examples: Irish The Lark in the Morning She’s […]
Angeline Morrison
‘…one of those rare records that feels perfectly weighted’ – Folk Radio UK‘masters the precision of storytelling, as well as its poetry… abundant with meaning and feeling’ – The Guardian‘A hypnotic performance’ – TradFolk.co‘Morrison has stunning control over the emotional depths of these songs. Her musicianship is equally impressive…’ – Folk Radio UK‘Morrison’s voice, already […]
Bird in the Belly @ Cambridge Folk Festival 2022
Mein Fotobericht zu Cambridge Folk Festival 2022 Bird in the Belly: Tragic Hearts of Town: Mein Post zu Bird in the Belly: After The City
Cambridge Folk Festival 2022
(Mit Rechtsklick wird für jedes Bild ein neues Fenster aufgemacht) Das war mein zweites Folk Festival in Cambridge. Ein halbes Jahr zuvor sah es nach einem ziemlich dürftigen Programm aus, das sich dann jedoch füllte. Die Qualität von 2019 hat es nicht erreicht, verflucht sei Covid. Die mühevoll angelegte Watchlist konnte ich nicht erfüllen, das […]
Bird in the Belly: After the City
Relevanz! Hier gibt es eigentlich keine Plattenkritiken, nach welchen Kriterien sollte ich aussuchen, was besprochen werden sollte? Wenn ich trotzdem diesen Artikel schreibe, so geschieht das, weil ich die Platte für relevant halte. Warum setzen sich Menschen hin, konzipieren Musik, untersuchen eine bestimmte Thematik, stellen Bezüge her, versuchen etwas zu hinterlassen, das nicht nur zurückweist […]