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Cecil Sharp

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Cecil James Sharp (22 November 1859 – 23 June 1924) was the founding father of the folk-song revival in England in the early 20th century. [1]

69 relations: A. L. Lloyd, Adelaide, Albert Hall, Adelaide, Appalachia, Appalachian music, Australia, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bachelor of Arts, Books LLC, Broadside ballad, Camberwell, Charles Marson, Clare College, Cambridge, Classical music, Concertina, Country dance, Curriculum, Dictionary of National Biography, Dover Publications, Elder Conservatorium of Music, English Folk Dance and Song Society, Eric Hobsbawm, Espérance Club, Expurgation, Fabian Society, Folia, Folk music, Garrick Club (Adelaide), Gotthold Reimann, Guy Boothby, Hampstead Conservatoire, Headington Quarry, Historical particularism, Invented tradition, Jane Hicks Gentry, Kentucky, Kingdom of Northumbria, London, Long Sword dance, Ludgrove School, Mary Neal, Maud Karpeles, Melbourne University Publishing, Morris dance, Nationalism, North Carolina, Olive Dame Campbell, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Pentatonic scale, ..., Ralph Vaughan Williams, Rapper sword, Robert Christgau, Romanticism, Roots revival, Samuel Way, Sonnerie de Sainte-Geneviève du Mont de Paris, St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide, Surrey, Tennessee, The Advertiser (Adelaide), Theatre Royal, Adelaide, University of Cambridge, Uppingham School, Virginia, William Kimber, William Morris, World War I, Yorkshire. Expand index (19 more) »

A. L. Lloyd

Albert Lancaster Lloyd (29 February 1908 – 29 September 1982),Eder, Bruce.

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Adelaide

Adelaide is the capital city of the state of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city of Australia.

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Albert Hall, Adelaide

The Albert Hall in Adelaide was a public entertainment venue in Pirie Street, built for the Adelaide German Club in 1880 and sold to the Salvation Army in 1899.

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Appalachia

Appalachia is a cultural region in the Eastern United States that stretches from the Southern Tier of New York to northern Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia.

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Appalachian music

Appalachian music is the music of the region of Appalachia in the Eastern United States.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian Dictionary of Biography

The Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB or AuDB) is a national co-operative enterprise founded and maintained by the Australian National University (ANU) to produce authoritative biographical articles on eminent people in Australia's history.

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Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (BA or AB, from the Latin baccalaureus artium or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, sciences, or both.

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Books LLC

Books LLC is an American publisher and a book sales club based in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Broadside ballad

A broadside (also known as a broadsheet) is a single sheet of inexpensive paper printed on one side, often with a ballad, rhyme, news and sometimes with woodcut illustrations.

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Camberwell

Camberwell is a district of south London, England, within the London Borough of Southwark.

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Charles Marson

Charles Latimer Marson (16 May 1859 – 3 March 1914) was an influential figure in the second wave of Christian socialism in England in the 1880s.

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Clare College, Cambridge

Clare College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.

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Classical music

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

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Concertina

A concertina is a free-reed musical instrument, like the various accordions and the harmonica.

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Country dance

A country dance is any of a large number of social dances of the British Isles in which couples dance together in a figure or "set", each dancer dancing to his or her partner and each couple dancing to the other couples in the set.

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Curriculum

In education, a curriculum (plural: curricula or curriculums) is broadly defined as the totality of student experiences that occur in the educational process.

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Dictionary of National Biography

The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published from 1885.

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Dover Publications

Dover Publications, also known as Dover Books, is an American book publisher founded in 1941 by Hayward Cirker and his wife, Blanche.

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Elder Conservatorium of Music

The Elder Conservatorium of Music, also known as "The Con", is Australia's senior academy of music and is located in the centre of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia.

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English Folk Dance and Song Society

The English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS, or pronounced 'EFF-diss') was formed in 1932 when two organisations merged: the Folk-Song Society and the English Folk Dance Society.

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Eric Hobsbawm

Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm (9 June 1917 – 1 October 2012) was a British historian of the rise of industrial capitalism, socialism and nationalism.

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Espérance Club

The Espérance Club, and the Maison Espérance dressmaking cooperative, were founded in the mid-1890s by Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and Mary Neal in response to distressing conditions for girls in the London dress trade.

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Expurgation

Expurgation, also known as bowdlerization, is a form of censorship which involves purging anything deemed noxious or offensive from an artistic work, or other type of writing of media.

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Fabian Society

The Fabian Society is a British socialist organization whose purpose is to advance the principles of democratic socialism via gradualist and reformist effort in democracies, rather than by revolutionary overthrow.

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Folia

La Folía (Spanish), or Follies of Spain (English), also known as folies d'Espagne (French), Follia (Italian), and Folia (Portuguese), is one of the oldest remembered European musical themes, or primary material, generally melodic, of a composition, on record.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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Garrick Club (Adelaide)

The Garrick Club was the name which could apply to several South Australian amateur theatrical groups, perhaps tenuously related, the most successful being the incarnation which operated from 1892 to 1899.

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Gotthold Reimann

Immanuel Gotthold Reimann RAM, CMB (13 January 1859 – 19 March 1932), generally known as I. G. Reimann or Gotthold Reimann, was a South Australian musician and teacher of music.

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Guy Boothby

Guy Newell Boothby (13 October 1867 – 26 February 1905) was a prolific Australian novelist and writer, noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end of the nineteenth century.

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Hampstead Conservatoire

The Hampstead Conservatoire was a private college for music and the arts at 64, Eton Avenue, Swiss Cottage, London.

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Headington Quarry

Headington Quarry is a residential district of Oxford, England, located east of Headington and west of Risinghurst, just inside the Oxford ring road in the east of the city.

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Historical particularism

Historical particularism (coined by Marvin Harris in 1968) is widely considered the first American anthropological school of thought.

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Invented tradition

The invention of tradition is a concept made prominent in the eponymous 1983 book edited by British Marxist intellectual E. J. Hobsbawm and T. O. Ranger.

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Jane Hicks Gentry

Jane Hicks Gentry (December 18, 1863 – May 25, 1925) was an Appalachian folklorist and singer, born in Watauga County, North Carolina.

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Kentucky

Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state located in the east south-central region of the United States.

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Kingdom of Northumbria

The Kingdom of Northumbria (Norþanhymbra rīce) was a medieval Anglian kingdom in what is now northern England and south-east Scotland.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Long Sword dance

Yorkshire The Long Sword dance is a hilt-and-point sword dance recorded mainly in Yorkshire, England.

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Ludgrove School

Ludgrove School is an independent preparatory boarding school for 200 boys, aged eight years to thirteen.

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Mary Neal

Mary Neal CBE (5 June 1860 – 22 June 1944), born Clara Sophia Neal, was an English social worker and collector of English folk dances.

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Maud Karpeles

Maud Karpeles (12 November 1885 – 1 October 1976) was a British collector of folksongs and dance teacher.

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Melbourne University Publishing

Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) is the book publishing arm of the University of Melbourne.

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Morris dance

Morris dance is a form of English folk dance usually accompanied by music.

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Nationalism

Nationalism is a political, social, and economic system characterized by the promotion of the interests of a particular nation, especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining sovereignty (self-governance) over the homeland.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Olive Dame Campbell

Olive Dame Campbell (1882–1954) was an American folklorist.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city in the South East region of England and the county town of Oxfordshire.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Pentatonic scale

A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave, in contrast to the more familiar heptatonic scale that has seven notes per octave (such as the major scale and minor scale).

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams (12 October 1872– 26 August 1958) was an English composer.

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Rapper sword

Rapper sword (also known as the "Short Sword" dance) is a variation of sword dance that emerged from the pit villages of Tyneside in North East England, where miners first performed the tradition.

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Robert Christgau

Robert Thomas Christgau (born April 18, 1942) is an American essayist and music journalist.

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Romanticism

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.

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Roots revival

A roots revival (folk revival) is a trend which includes young performers popularizing the traditional musical styles of their ancestors.

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Samuel Way

Sir Samuel James Way, 1st Baronet (11 April 1836 – 8 January 1916), English-Australian jurist, was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia from 18 March 1876 until 8 January 1916.

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Sonnerie de Sainte-Geneviève du Mont de Paris

Sonnerie de Sainte-Geneviève du Mont de Paris, "The Bells of St.

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St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide

St Peter's Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in the South Australian capital of Adelaide.

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Surrey

Surrey is a county in South East England, and one of the home counties.

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Tennessee

Tennessee (translit) is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States.

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The Advertiser (Adelaide)

The Advertiser is a conservative, daily tabloid-format newspaper published in the city of Adelaide, South Australia.

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Theatre Royal, Adelaide

The Theatre Royal on Hindley Street, Adelaide was a significant venue in the history of the stage in South Australia.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University)The corporate title of the university is The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.

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Uppingham School

Uppingham School is a co-educational independent school situated in the small market town of Uppingham in Rutland, England.

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Virginia

Virginia (officially the Commonwealth of Virginia) is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States located between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

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William Kimber

William "Merry" Kimber (8 September 1872 – 26 December 1961), was an English Anglo concertina player and Morris dancer who played a key role in the twentieth century revival of Morris Dancing, the traditional English folk dancing.

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William Morris

William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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Yorkshire

Yorkshire (abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Sharp

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