Description: | Subjects covered include: Folk/traditional/popular song, Child Ballads, Broadside ballads, Industrial/occupational songs, sea songs/shanties, Singing games, Nursery rhymes, Street cries, Carols/hymns, Rounds/glees/part songs, Music hall, Ritual/ceremonial dance, Morris/sword dance, Maypole dancing, Social/country dance, Square/barn/Playford dance, Step/solo dance, Historical dance, International dance, Customs/festivals, Tales/myths/legends, Social history, Oral history, Dialects, Folklore, Mummers' plays & traditional drama, Animal disguise, May Day, Collecting/fieldwork, Musical instruments, Instrumental music, Street literature, EFDSS, Folk revival, Music history, and Biographies.
The library also includes the original papers of Lucy Broadwood, Janet Blunt, Anne Gilchrist, Maud Karpeles, George Butterworth, George Gardiner, the Hammond Brothers and Francis Collinson; copies of the papers and notebooks of Sabine Baring-Gould, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Frank Kidson, Gavin Greig and James Madison Carpenter; and the field recordings of Percy Grainger, Mike Yates and the BBC Folk Music Archive. VWML is EnglandÃ's national folk music and dance archive - a one stop shop for anybody interested in the folk arts. |