Forty years ago a sharp-nosed, ascetic British antiquarian named Cecil Sharp noted that in certain remote parts of England, primitive villagers dressed themselves in strange costumes and skittered ...

IT is only in recent years that with the active collection and study of European folk-lore the folksong and folk-dance have begun to receive the attention which they deserve. The collecting of English ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Publisher Information The English Folk Dance and Song Society was formed in 1932 by the merger of two organizations, the Folk-Song Society, and the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Publisher Information The English Folk Dance and Song Society was formed in 1932 by the merger of two organizations, the Folk-Song Society, and the ...

Copeland answers three questions about a form of English folk dancing which may have originated one night in the Middle Ages when some guys got really drunk. Originally broadcast April 25, 2014. BILL ...

Presenter Charles Hazlewood stages a 140-person flashmob clog dance and explores the history of this folk dance that originated in the collieries and pit villages of the north east of England in the ...

RIDGEWOOD — Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy could have joined more than 50 dancers sashaying and do-si-doing to “The Duke of Kent’s Waltz” during a Sunday afternoon social of the North Jersey English ...

I enjoyed the March 17 article about couple dancing in the Lehigh Valley. I would like to suggest two more forms of dance that are available; contra dancing and international folk dancing. Both are ...

THE recent amalgamation of the Folk Song Society with the English Folk Dance Society has been marked by the appearance of a new journal with the title Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song ...