In The Late Victorian Folksong Revival: The Persistence of English Melody, 1878-1903, E. David Gregory provides a reliable and comprehensive history of the birt

Establishing an intersection between the fields of traditional music studies, English folk music history and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattar

Victorian Songhunters is a pioneering history of the rediscovery of vernacular song—street songs that have entered oral tradition and have been passed from ge

In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research into ’street literature’ -

In Victorian times, England was famously dubbed the land without music - but one of the great musical discoveries of the early twentieth century was that Englan