Folklife Traditions Journal
We seek to raise awareness of relevant Societies, Institutions, Researchers, Publications
We welcome your learned articles for interested readers, but note we’re not a peer-reviewed journal. • See this website, "Index: ARTICLES" webpage, for past articles.
CONTRIBUTIONS WELCOME for appropriate articles; contact us first, please. See "Contact & Contribute" webpage (also for ad rates, etc).
• Articles - check first if timely, as might be held over; up to 2500 words.
• News up to 200 words.
We welcome:
• Songs, tunes, dances, & stories collected
• Information about relevant Societies & Institutions & Researchers
• Relevant books announced (exceptionally CDs eg traditional singers) - up to 200 words, more if advert, or at editor’s discretion
• Songs & tunes collected
• Seasonal Local Celebrations, based on Doc Rowe’s listings, additions welcome
• Conferences & Talks
We seek to raise awareness of relevant Societies, Institutions, Researchers, Publications
We welcome your learned articles for interested readers, but note we’re not a peer-reviewed journal. • See this website, "Index: ARTICLES" webpage, for past articles.
CONTRIBUTIONS WELCOME for appropriate articles; contact us first, please. See "Contact & Contribute" webpage (also for ad rates, etc).
• Articles - check first if timely, as might be held over; up to 2500 words.
• News up to 200 words.
We welcome:
• Songs, tunes, dances, & stories collected
• Information about relevant Societies & Institutions & Researchers
• Relevant books announced (exceptionally CDs eg traditional singers) - up to 200 words, more if advert, or at editor’s discretion
• Songs & tunes collected
• Seasonal Local Celebrations, based on Doc Rowe’s listings, additions welcome
• Conferences & Talks
Downloadable A4-size pdfs for all issues. Some articles originally-print only, these articles are being gradually added.
Earlier issues also as "Issuu" e-magazines; may omit some originally-print only articles (still available but we can't update).
Earlier issues also as "Issuu" e-magazines; may omit some originally-print only articles (still available but we can't update).
FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS
Our aims include stimulating a wider interest in folk studies & folk culture: the FT pages. For each issue: cover + a list of contents below.
To read FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS PAGES.
In print is best, as it is a print publication.
You can support us by subscribing; we call this "Folklife Membership", it costs £21 a year (posted or PDF) see Contact & Contribute webpage
We can send per-issue files by WeTransfer, this is time-consuming for us, so that's £3 per file.
For earlier issues, we did also have e-magazines but we're now having problems with that format. So we added PDFs for earlier issues as well.
Additionally, for the current issue only, copies of the print pages are shown on "This issue online" webpage.
ALL ISSUES can now be downloaded as PDFs. ALSO as E-MAGAZINES for EARLIER FTs, up to and including JANUARY 2018, FT 56
To read FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS PAGES.
In print is best, as it is a print publication.
You can support us by subscribing; we call this "Folklife Membership", it costs £21 a year (posted or PDF) see Contact & Contribute webpage
- For more details, please contact [email protected] Eleanor & Sam Simmons, 16/1/2020
We can send per-issue files by WeTransfer, this is time-consuming for us, so that's £3 per file.
For earlier issues, we did also have e-magazines but we're now having problems with that format. So we added PDFs for earlier issues as well.
Additionally, for the current issue only, copies of the print pages are shown on "This issue online" webpage.
ALL ISSUES can now be downloaded as PDFs. ALSO as E-MAGAZINES for EARLIER FTs, up to and including JANUARY 2018, FT 56
Below - 2006 Sep - FWJ 01 to 2016 Jul - FT 50
PDFs; plus e-magazines on e-magazine site, https://issuu.com/traditions-uk where you will find a list of issues - this page all available as e-magazines to read online.
FWJ - Folklife West Journal - was published separately and irregularly (due to work demands) , then as regularly as pages within Folklife magazine.
Issuu is an e-magazine format, which we relied on for years, till it suddenly wouldn't work when I tried to add to it... Still works for you reading FT 56 and earlier; you can't download from that site, only from this page as PDFs. So, if you go to our e-magazine site, https://issuu.com/traditions-uk, you will find a list of issues up to January 2018, FT 56 - all available as e-magazines to read online. We can't update that site.
Note on print vs online availability of articles and copyright pictures - Articles by Dave Jones and Charles Menteith are not available on Issuu.
Articles by Charles Menteith are being added to downloadable PDFs on this site. This is an ongoing process and not complete due to the problems of older magazines using Apple fonts that have been discontinued & converting to modern fonts before saving as PDFs. For individual articles, contact us, we may have a Pdf of article that we can send even if not on PDF below.
Articles by Dave Jones. Taken from his book The Roots of Welsh Border Morris, £5 by post from Annie Jones, see adverts in FT or contact us for Annie's details.
Additionally sometimes we have copyright restrictions eg in one case high-resolution permission granted for print but low-resolution for web . . .
FWJ - Folklife West Journal - was published separately and irregularly (due to work demands) , then as regularly as pages within Folklife magazine.
Issuu is an e-magazine format, which we relied on for years, till it suddenly wouldn't work when I tried to add to it... Still works for you reading FT 56 and earlier; you can't download from that site, only from this page as PDFs. So, if you go to our e-magazine site, https://issuu.com/traditions-uk, you will find a list of issues up to January 2018, FT 56 - all available as e-magazines to read online. We can't update that site.
Note on print vs online availability of articles and copyright pictures - Articles by Dave Jones and Charles Menteith are not available on Issuu.
Articles by Charles Menteith are being added to downloadable PDFs on this site. This is an ongoing process and not complete due to the problems of older magazines using Apple fonts that have been discontinued & converting to modern fonts before saving as PDFs. For individual articles, contact us, we may have a Pdf of article that we can send even if not on PDF below.
Articles by Dave Jones. Taken from his book The Roots of Welsh Border Morris, £5 by post from Annie Jones, see adverts in FT or contact us for Annie's details.
Additionally sometimes we have copyright restrictions eg in one case high-resolution permission granted for print but low-resolution for web . . .
We are preparing to move, so gradually the 3 columns below are being replaced by 1 column across.
Therefore please bear with us when we are working - temporary duplication, 1 issue at a time.
Therefore please bear with us when we are working - temporary duplication, 1 issue at a time.
2006 Sep - FWJ 0120 A4 pages (incl. colour photos)
● ‘A Worcestershire Folk Club: Somers Traditional Folk Club' p3-4 ● Dave Jones, Welsh Border Morris: ‘Introduction’ & ‘Evesham Morris Dances’ p5-7 (print-only) ● Charles Menteith, ‘Worcestershire Songs: “Bill The Weaver” & “Now on that hill …" p8-9 (print-only; to add later) ● Eric Payne “Mud, Dust and Noise”: Whitman’s Hill Quarry, p11 ● Roy Palmer, Ballad Printers of Worcester, 1. John Butler’ p12-13 ● Roy Palmer, ‘Cecil Sharp at Evesham’, p14-15 ● Robert Wimbury ‘Worcs Memories: A Worcs Coronation Pageant’ p17 Societies ● Worcs. Folklife’s Recording Facilities’ p17 ● ‘Holly & Mistletoe Auctions’ p18 ● ‘Worcs Chinese Association’ p18 Publications ● ‘Romany Road’ magazine p18 ● ‘The Folklore of Worcestershire’ (Roy Palmer), reviewed Eds p2 Worcestershire Festivals, & Performers ● Upton Folk Festival: photos by Colin Davies p.10 ● ‘Just Latin Salsa’ ‘Food & Folk’, ‘Dampiers Round’, ‘Appleyard Dancers’, p18-19 A special Worcestershire issue, assisted by an Awards for All grant, distributed free to Worcs local community groups, venues, clubs, Tourist Offices, libraries. Usual contents, + 'folk club' material normally in our "Folk West" magazine
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From FWJ 2 , all issues have the following, not always listed in contents
● Talks, Conferences, Exhibitions, etc ● Folklife listings: 1-line summaries for Folklife Organisations and for Folklife Studies ● Seasonal Local Celebrations: a list with photos by Doc Rowe
● Talks, Conferences, Exhibitions, etc ● Folklife listings: 1-line summaries for Folklife Organisations and for Folklife Studies ● Seasonal Local Celebrations: a list with photos by Doc Rowe
2008 Dec - FWJ 0224 A4 pp (mono)
● Charles Menteith, ‘The Withy Tree Carol’, a version from Evesham, p3 print-only; to add later ● Dave Jones, Welsh Border Morris: ‘The Village Teams’, p4-7 print-only ● Roy Palmer, “Not the Good Old Times”, George Swinford’s narrative of rural life p8-9 ● Roy Palmer, Ballad Printers of Worcester, 2: Samuel Gamidge, p10-14, 24 ● Geoff Davies, What is Folk? p16 ● Christopher Ridley, Bodmin Folk Club: A Short History p17 Societies ● Ron Shuttleworth's Collection: Morris Ring Folk Play Archive, p15 Publications ● ‘Romany Road’ magazine, p18 Reviews ● Veteran CDs; Traveller’s Joy; The Folklore of Discworld; The Folklore of the Black Country p18-19
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2009 Jun - FWJ 0324 A4 pp (mono)
● Charles Menteith, ‘Down At The Suicide Arms’, p3 print-only; to add later ● Dave Jones, Welsh Border Morris: 'The Brimfield Morris Dance', p4-6 print-only ● Roy Palmer, Ballad Printers of Worcester, 3: James & John Grundy, George & Thomas Lewis, Thomas Hayes, p7-11 ● Bill Pullen, Winchcombe Mummers Play & Morris (Winchcombe Cavalcade, Eleanor Adlard, 1939) p12-13 Societies ● The Folklore Society, introduction, Dr Caroline Oates p14-15 ● EFDSS ‘Take 6’ Archive Website p16-18 Publications ● Why Dance? review, Paul Burgess, p21 ● CD: Down Upon Old Dartymoor, p21
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2009 Dec - FWJ 0424 A4 pp (mono)
● Charles Menteith, Two Songs to the Same Tune: ~ Willikins and his Dinah ~ The Back-to-front Song: p3 ● Dave Jones, Welsh Border Morris: 'Bromsberrow Heath', p4-6 ● Roy Palmer, Ballad Printers of Worcester, 4. Richard Houghton p7-9 Societies ●‘Vesta Tilley Society’ formed p10-12 ● Wren Music: Devon Tradition project, Baring-Gould Heritage Project p13-14 ● EFDSS: Arts Council funding p15 ● EFDSS: Cecil Sharp Diaries online p14 Publications ● The Fallibroome Collection, p16 ● Phonofossils CDs review by Cresby, p16
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2010 Dec - FWJ 0524 A4 pp (mono)
● Charles Menteith, ‘The Scarlet and the Blue’, p3 ● Marilyn Tucker, ‘Shore To Shore’: 400 years of folk connections between SW England & Newfoundland, p4-7 ● Dave Jones, Welsh Border Morris: Cradley Morris Dance: [play] p.8-11 ● Grenville Sheringham, songs to Willikins and his Dinah tune: ‘Go Limp’ & ‘Threshing Machine’, p11 ● Roy Palmer, Ballad Printers of Worcester, 5. H.F. Sefton, p12-18 Publications -- all p19 ● ‘Working Songs’, Roy Palmer ● ‘A Sweet Country Life’ [Sharp in Tewkesbury], Richard Sermon ● 'The Lore of the Playground’, Steve Roud ● online: Ballad printers of Birmingham: Roy Palmer
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2011 Apr - FWJ 0620 A4 pp (mono)
● Roy Palmer, Ballad Printers of Herefordshire, 1. Hereford, p6-9 ● Charles Menteith, ‘Lilian’ (from Fred Pargeter), p10 ● Bill Pullen, song to Willikins & his Dinah tune: ‘The Molecatcher’, p10 ● Dave Jones, Welsh Border Morris: ‘The Dilwyn Stick Dance’, p12-13 Societies ● Wren Music: Baring-Gould Folk Song Archive digitised & online, p3-5 ● The Folklore Society, An introduction by Dr Caroline Oates, p11 ● Wren: Newfoundland trad. music & song, inc. historical background, p14 Publications ● online: Roud Folk Song and Broadside indexes updated, p16 ● online: ‘English folk and traditional music on the Internet’ moves, p16 ● Gloucestershire Folk Map leaflet, p16 ● ‘A Hampshire Collection’, p17 ● CDs trad. song, Glos & elsewhere, p17
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2011 Oct - FWJ 06a
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2012 Jan - FWJ 07
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2012 Apr - FWJ 07a12 A4 pp (mono), a Folklife Diary, in Folklife West magazine
● Charles Menteith ‘The Butcher and The Parson’, p 12 Directory Updates, & 1-line Listings ● Folklife Studies, Organisations, Media, Services, pp 2-4 Folklife Diary ● conferences & talks, p11 NEW LISTINGS added: Workshops & Courses, pp 5, 7 Publications: CDs, p9 ● Sarah McQuaid: ‘The Plum Tree and The Rose' ● Steve Turner: ‘Rim of the Wheel' ● Mitch Reynolds: 'Thunder in the Wind' Publications: reviews, p 9 ● CD, Pholk Law: Defend The Fire, review by Bill Pullen Seasonal Local Celebrations, • list by Doc Rowe, pp10-11
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2012 Jul - FWJ 0820 A4 pages (mono)
● Ballad Printers of Herefordshire, Roy Palmer: 3. Leominster & Ross, p14-17 ● Dave Jones, Welsh Border Morris: 'Much Wenlock Stick Dance' music (FWJ 07 cont'd) p18; ‘Pershore Morris’, p18-19 Societies & Institutions ● EFDSS; Katy Spicer, Chief Executive, p8-9 ● Gloucester Folk Museum; David Rice, Curator, p9 ● trac (Music Traditions Wales); Blanche Rowe, p10 ● St Fagans National History Museum, p11 Diary & Listings ● 1-line Listings, p2-3 ● Directory Updates, p7 ● Short courses, schools, workshops, p4-7 ● Conferences & talks, p7 Publications: Books, p11-12: Jack Tar, ordinary seamen in Nelson’s navy, by Roy & Lesley Adkins● Bert … A L Lloyd, by Dave Arthur ● New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs, ed Steve Roud & Julia Bishop. Publications: reviews, p 13 CD Steve Turner: ‘Rim of the Wheel’, review Bill Smith Seasonal Local Celebrations ● A list with photos, by Doc Rowe, p20
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FWJ name change to Folklife Traditions, so "FWJ 8" is followed by "FT 9"
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After Folklife Traditions 09, Folklife Traditions was renumbered;
using the same number as the Folklife Quarterly within which it was published.
So next was 2013 Jan - FT 36 on Issues 36 - 49