In Victorian times, England was famously dubbed the land without music - but one of the great musical discoveries of the early twentieth century was that England had a vital heritage of folk song an
A fascinating survey of 100 years of children's games and rhymesFrom conkers to marbles, from skipping to tag, not forgetting "one potato, two potato" and "eeny, meeny, miny, mo," Lore of the Playgrou
London is a city with almost as many ancient legends and deep-rooted customs as it has streets and landmarks, and here a leading folklorist brings together an astonishingly rich selection of them—tale
London is a city with almost as many ancient legends and deep-rooted customs as it has streets and landmarks, and here a leading folklorist brings together an astonishingly rich selection of them?tale
This enthralling book will take you, month-by-month, day-by-day, through all the festivities of English life. From national celebrations such as New Year's Eve to regional customs such as the Padstow
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製Are black cats lucky or unlucky? What should you do when you hear the first cuckoo? Since when have people believed that it's unlucky to shoot an albatross? Why does br
This enthralling book will take you, month-by-month, day-by-day, through all the festivities of English life. From national celebrations such as New Year’s Eve to regional customs such as the Padstow
This Dictionary is part of the Oxford Reference Collection: using sustainable print-on-demand technology to make the acclaimed backlist of the Oxford Reference programme perennially available in hardb
The definitive collection of folk music - one of the great English popular art forms One of the great English popular art forms, the folk song can be painful, satirical, erotic, dramatic, rueful or fu
Richard Roud's Godard, first published in 1967 as `Number One' in the seminal Cinema One series, was the first monograph on the great film-maker to be published in English, and one that reveals a uniq
In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research into a€?street literaturea€? - that is, the cheap printed broadsides a
Richard Roud, film writer and co-founder and director of the New York Film Festival, was one of the most influential film critics of the 20th Century. Renowned for his close relationships with French
