Popular Singing Traditions in and Around Snape and Blaxhall

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Ph.D. thesis in three parts, subdivided into nine chapters covering folksong scholarship and the development of a critical methodology, the histories of the villages of Blaxhall and Snape, men's singing institutions, women, young people, the learning of songs, song ownership, aesthetics and repertoire. The appendices include biographical information on the informants, the recorded repertoire of the singers, a list of the songs collected and a list of the field tape recordings made.

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Related material

For a detailed analysis of the singing style of one of Ginette Dunn's principal informants, Bob Hart, see Julia Bishop's M.A. dissertation (Leeds, 1983), 'The Singing Style of Bob Hart: A Study of Performance in Traditional Song' ( LAVC/SRP/1/093).


See also Donald Mackay's B.A. dissertation (Leeds, 1971), 'The Tradition of Pub Singing in the Villages of East Suffolk, With Songs from Bob Hart of Snape and Percy Webb of Tunstall'( LAVC/SRP/2/170).



79 open reel audiotapes, LAVC/SRE/A329r-407r. A photocopy of a review of the book, 'The Fellowship of Song'(London: Croom Helm, 1980), that Ginette Dunn published from her thesis is held in the Folk Life File, LAVC/FLF/1/3/1 .

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