Video Presentations
I have given scores of presentations over the last twenty-five years at folk festivals and meetings of various societies. I am now making some of these available as videos on YouTube, via the Traditional Song Forum channel. At present there are five videos available and these are described briefly below. Further videos are in preparation and will be added to the list when they are published. The link for the playlist for the complete series is:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEFtLCJWnIFbSWMiseB6YHJsjWkN3B63p
Descriptions of the individual talks are as follows:
Boney went a’cruisin
This talk describes Napoleon Bonaparte’s voyage from France to England in 1815, and looks at the way it is depicted in the song ‘Napoleon Bonaparte’s Exile to St Helena’, published not long afterwards as a broadside.
Clift of Cirencester
A video presentation about the broadside printer, William Clift, who lived and worked in Cirencester in the early years of the 19th Century. It explores his life and looks at the broadside ballads that he printed for sale in his shop on Cirencester’s Market Place.
The Chesapeake and the Shannon
The action between the USS Chesapeake and HMS Shannon in 1813 was a much-needed victory for the Royal Navy after a period in the War of 1812 in which they had suffered a number of set-backs. This talk looks at the way in which the sea-battle between the has been portrayed in traditional songs and in broadside ballads from both sides of the Atlantic.
Old Songs and Sugar Mice:
Marianne Mason was the first woman to collect folk songs which, in 1877, she published as English Country Songs and Nursery Rhymes. This talk was recorded at the English Folk Dance and Song Society’s Song Conference in October 2013.
Our Butler Died This Morning
This presentation is about two of the most important folk song collectors of the Late Victorian era, Sabine Baring-Gould and Lucy Broadwood. Using their letters and diaries I have drawn a picture of their shared experiences in collecting traditional songs in the final years of the Nineteenth Century.
More coming soon
Watch this space…
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