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English folk tunes in performance today

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Folk Tunes and Englishness
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Musicians Sam Sweeney, Rob Harbron, and Alan Lamb join Dr Alice Little to discuss English folk music in performance today.
From eighteenth-century manuscripts to traditional sea shanties, where do they find their tunes, how do they play them in an 'English' way, and how do audiences respond?

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Folk Tunes and Englishness
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Sam Sweeney
Rob Harbron
Alan Lamb
Alice Little
Keywords
music
folk music
sea shanties
Ethnomusicology
music performance
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 03/05/2021
Duration: 00:27:50

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