Performing Folk Songs: Affect, Landscape and Repertoire

by Elizabeth Bennett

Performing Folk Songs is the first full-length volume to explore English folk singing from the perspective of performance studies. Using archival sources, family repertoire and recorded performances of interviewees, this book argues that archives and repertoires are produced in sensory environments and through embodied encounters. Autoethnography, sensory ethnography, life-writing and landscape writing are used to explore the affective and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150139018X
• ISBN13: 9781501390180
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"