english dance & song

English Dance & Song is the longest-established magazine devoted to folk music, dance and song in the country. First published in 1936, it has appeared at least four times a year ever since.

Contents

67 – 2 Summer 2005

A Black and White Issue?– Derek Schofield (the custom of blacking up)
Tapatak – Frances Watt
A Young Man’s Lamentation – Dungbeetle
Geoff Rye Gold Badge Citation – Mike Wilson-Jones
Cecil Sharp House – a Celebration– Hazel Miller & Derek Schofield (75th anniversary)
A Toast to Bob– Andrew King (a review of the celebration of Bob Copper’s life)
The Last Waltz – Spectator
The Alan Lomax Archive
Education Update – Diana Campbell Jewitt
Branching Out – Son Townsend of Bampton Morris; Dave Swarbrick; Dirty Old Town; Mitchell and Kenyon films; National Folk Music Festival; Vic Gammon

Lives Remembered – including Cyril Tawney; Walter Abson; Wendy Knight.

Reviews – including Eliza Carthy; The Bismarcks; Bob Davenport; The Houghton Band; Song Links 2; June Tabor; 3D; Martin Simpson.
Regular Features:
Festive Round-Up; Songs under the Microscope; Letters

Editors: Felicity Greenland & Derek Schofield

English Dance & Song exists to interest, inform and stimulate the membership of the EFDSS, as well as the wider folk music and dance community. 

English Dance & Song aims to publish contributions of the highest quality.

The range of interests include traditional song, traditional dance (social, display, ceremonial), traditional music, custom and children's games. The geographical spread is not confined to England, but may also include Scotland, Wales and Ireland; as well as the USA, and other areas of the world which may be appropriate. 

Potential contributors are asked to read the Contributor's Style Sheet. htm rtf pdf

Items for review should be sent to the Editor. Unsolicited reviews will not be published.

The Editor of eds is Derek Schofield, author of The First Week in August: Fifty Years of the Sidmouth Festival, published in 2004 to celebrate the festival’s Golden Jubilee.

He has also written biographies of William Kimber and Fred Jordan, as published in their recent CDs, Absolutely Classic: The Music of William Kimber (EFDSS, 1999) and A Shropshire Lad (Veteran, 2003). Derek has also contributed to The Guardian, The Independent and The Times, as well as to the Folk Music Journal and fRoots.

Contact the Editor at: Editor, English Dance and Song, EFDSS, Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent’s Park Road, London, NW1 7AY.

By email write to

eds.editor @the domain name efdss.org