The Chime Child: or Somerset Singers Being An Account of Some of Them and Their Songs Collected Over Sixty Years

by Ruth L. Tongue and Dashka Slater

Originally published in 1968. The author, a well-known contemporary and friend of folklorist Katharine M. Briggs, collected a tremendous store of folk music material over many years and eventually decided to put some of it on permanent record. This book comprises a cross-section of rescued melodies dating back to medieval days and up to the Victorian early ballads. It describes individual folk singers in Somerset in great detail as personal accounts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138122327
• ISBN13: 9781138122321
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"