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The new Penguin book of English folk songs

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The definitive collection of folk music - one of the great English popular art formsOne of the great English popular art forms, the folk song can be painful, satirical, erotic, dramatic, rueful or funny.

This magical new collection brings together all the classic folk songs as well as many lesser-known discoveries, complete with music and annotations on their original sources and meaning.

Published in cooperation with the English Folk Dance and Song Society, it is a worthy successor to Ralph Vaughan Williams and A.

L. Lloyd's original Penguin Book of English Folk Songs.

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Penguin Classics
0141194626 / 9780141194622
Paperback / softback
06/02/2014
United Kingdom
English
lxi, 542 pages : illustrations (black and white)
20 cm
Reprint. At foot of title: English Folk Dance and Song Society. Originally published: 2012.