THE recent amalgamation of the Folk Song Society with the English Folk Dance Society has been marked by the appearance of a new journal with the title Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song ...

In 1915 Sharp went to the U. S. and himself founded the English Folk-Dance Society’s Manhattan branch. U. S. dancers, who had not yet forgotten their Virginia reels and square dances, ...

Folk Music And Dances Find Their Niche Here. September 7, 2000. ... Given this fertile environment, it is not surprising that folk concerts flourish from Glen Echo to Takoma Park, ...

Camden's Cecil Sharp House has been questioning the very notion of what traditional British music means in the multicultural 21st Century. "Hip-hop is the folk dance of today," said Natasha ...

English Folk-Dances. Miss Maud Karpeles has published in Folk-Lore, vol. 43, No. 2, a study of the survival and revival of folk-dances, in which she reviews the principal types of folk-dance with ...

Folk dancing should drop terms like “ladies and gentlemen” to avoid “offending minority genders”, a leading music organisation has said.. The English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) is ...