FOLK SONG IN ENGLAND (PB)

England was once dubbed 'the land without music', but in the early twentieth century collectors and enthusiasts such as Cecil Sharp, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Percy Grainger discovered a vital heritage of folk song, vibrant and alive among working men and women. Still, after more than a century of collecting, publishing and performing songs, there are still many things we don't know about England's traditional music. In answer to these questions, folklorist Steve Roud has drawn on an unprecedented range of sources to present an intricate social history of folk song through the ages.