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Film, Video Hidden Carols: A Christmas Singing Tradition in the English Pennines

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Title

  • Hidden Carols: A Christmas Singing Tradition in the English Pennines

Summary

  • For well over two and a half centuries, the performance of distinctive carols has been a feature of the seasonal holiday of Christmas in villages in many parts of England, especially in the West Country and in the region of South Yorkshire and Derbyshire around Sheffield, on the eastern edge of the Pennine hills. In this talk Ian Russell explores the development of this tradition in terms of musicality, group structure, style, and repertoire with recorded examples. He also discusses the overall sound ideal created by such carolling and the dynamic soundscape that identifies this form of cultural expression, drawing on the ethnographic fieldwork he has undertaken during the past forty years.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • American Folklife Center, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2014-01-07.

Headings

  • -  Culture, Folklife
  • -  Education
  • -  Literature

Notes

  • -  Classification: Fine Arts.
  • -  Classification: Music and Books on Music.
  • -  Ian Russell.
  • -  Recorded on 2014-01-07.
  • -  Publishers.
  • -  Researchers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021689292

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Hidden Carols: A Christmas Singing Tradition in the English Pennines. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -01-07, 2014. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689292/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & American Folklife Center, S. B. (2014) Hidden Carols: A Christmas Singing Tradition in the English Pennines. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -01-07. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689292/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Hidden Carols: A Christmas Singing Tradition in the English Pennines. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -01-07, 2014. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021689292/>.