Reading Group
This runs online as drop-in sessions led by members of the community. You will have the opportunity to discuss a variety of folk-related material, ranging from articles and blogs to albums and interviews. For each session, there will be two readings and/or media and you can take a look at either, or both.
Everyone is welcome: No formal qualifications or academic background is needed - just an interest in folk song and traditional music. Attendance is flexible: come to as many or as few sessions as you like, depending on what suits you, or which topics interest you most!
Summer 2022
Tues 31 May, 3-4 pm
Item 1: Lucas, Caroline. ‘The Imagined Folk of England: Whiteness, Folk Music and Fascism’. Critical Race and Whiteness Studies 9, no. 1 (2013).
Playlist: Music examples from the readings and other non-white musicians.
Further reading:
Wilks, Jon, (2022) ‘Angeline Morrison – The Sorrow Songs Interview’
https://tradfolk.co/music/music-interviews/angeline-morrison-sorrow-songs/
Wed 29 June, 8-9pm
Item 1: Ashby, Steven P., and John Schofield. ‘“Hold the Heathen Hammer High”: Representation, Re-Enactment and the Construction of “Pagan” Heritage’. International Journal of Heritage Studies 21, no. 5 (28 May 2015): 493–511.
Read pages 1-5 (Introduction), and 12-14 (discussion, in particular.
Item 2: Hay, Mark. ‘This Guy Wants to Trip You Into a Parallel Reality Via Bagpipes’. Vice (blog), 15 January 2014.
Playlist: Music examples from the readings and global folk metal.
Further Reading:
Spracklen, Karl. ‘“To Holmgard … and Beyond”: Folk Metal Fantasies and Hegemonic White Masculinities’. Metal Music Studies 1, no. 3 (1 September 2015): 359–77.
Fredriksson, Daniel. (2022). 'Not Folk Metal, but…' Online intercultural musicking in 'the Grove'. STM-SJM 103 (2021).