Vaughan Williams Memorial Library
Museum collections
Vaughan Williams Memorial Library
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Host: The English Folk Dance and Song Society
Notes:
The English Folk Dance and Song Society was set up to preserve and champion traditional English arts, including dance, music, song and storytelling. The society is responsible for the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, England’s national folk music and dance archive. This is an essential resource for anybody interested in the folk arts.
Founded in 1930 as the Cecil Sharp Library and housing Cecil Sharp’s personal book collection (which helped lay the foundations of the modern folk revival), it is now a multi-media library of distinction, containing books, pamphlets, periodicals, press cuttings, broadsides, paintings, photographs, slides, artefacts, records, reel-to-reel tapes, phonograph cylinders, videos, cine films, compact discs, audio cassettes and more.
Keywords:
folk art culture song dance tradition morris music august2018
SHIC codes:
1.1,1.14,1.141,1.1410,1.1411,1.1412,1.1419,1.142,1.143,1.15,1.150,1.151,1.152,1.153,1.1530,1.1531,1.1532,1.1539,1.159,1.17,1.19
Address:
Cecil Sharp House2 Regent’s Park Road
London
NW1 7AY
United Kingdom
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