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Cecil Sharp in Somerset: some reflections on the work of David Harker
Folklore, April, 2002 by C.J. Bearman
[12] See the letter from Reeves in Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society (Reeves 1960), which expresses his surprise that in the centenary number devoted to Sharp's work no tribute had been paid to his importance as a preserver of traditional verse.
[13] In the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels congratulate capitalism for one achievement at least--that of having delivered at least some of the proletariat from "the idiocy of rural life." See Marx and Engels 1983, 208; more generally, see Mitrany 1951.
[14] Public Record Office, copies of Census Enumerators' Books, Hambridge, RG12/1890.
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[15] These figures are based on an analysis of Cecil Sharp's Field Note Books, the "Tune Books," the collections of "Folk Words" made by Maud Karpeles, the published notes to the second (1911-19) edition of Folk Songs from Somerset, press cuttings, and material in the David Bland MSS. All this material has been studied in the originals or copies kept in the VWML. The one singer who specifically attributed a song to a broadside was Fred Crossman. The song was "As I Walked through the Meadows." Crossman said, "Learned this off a ballet at Bridgwater Fair when I was about 12": Field Note Books (Tunes) 13-18 April 1904.
[16] For Elizabeth Lock, see Field Note Books (words) 4 April-16 April 1904 (131-214). For Emma Glover, see Field Note Books (Words) 22 December 1904-12 January 1905 (440-496). For William Davies, see Field Note Books (Tunes) 6 September 1906-?
[17] Miss Doveton Brown of Clevedon. See Field Note Books (Tunes) 13 September 1904 + 16 April-4 May 1905 (420-440 + 497-517).
[18] John Holt of Haselbury Plucknett. Field Note Books (Words) 18 April-24 August 1905 (597-674).
[19] Number calculated from card index compiled from Cecil Sharp "Folk Tunes."
References Cited
Arthur, Dave. Obituary of A. L. Lloyd. Folk Music Journal 4 (1983):436-9.
Bearman, C. J. "Who were the Folk? The Demography of Cecil Sharp's Somerset Folk Singers." Historical Journal 43 (2000):751-75.
Bearman, C. J. "The English Folk Music Movement, 1898-1914," Ph.D. thesis submitted to the University of Hull, 2001 (copy in the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, Cecil Sharp House, London).
Blythe, Ronald. Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972.
Boyes, Georgina. The Imagined Village: Culture, Ideology, and the English Folk Revival. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993.
Burke, Peter. Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe. London: Temple Smith, 1978.
Folk Songs from Somerset. Gathered and edited ... with introductions and notes. First, second and third series by C. J. Sharp and Charles L. Marson. Fourth and fifth series by C. J. Sharp. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1904-09.
Gammon, Vic. "`Two for the Show': David Harker, Politics, and Popular Song." History Workshop Journal 21 (1986):147-56.
Gramsci, Antonio. Selections from the Prison Notebooks. Edited and translated by Q. Hoare and G. Nowell-Smith. London: Laurence and Wishart, 1971.
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