Cecil Sharp

His Life and Work

Maud Karpeles

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9780571287048
• Edition: 0

Others came before and after him but no person is more strongly associated with the revival of English folk song and dance at the turn of the twentieth-century than Cecil Sharp (1859-1924). He collected about 5000 folk songs and nearly 500 dances.

This prodigious achievement is told by someone who perhaps knew him better than anyone else. Maud Karpeles was his assistant for many years and accompanied him on his expeditions to the Southern Appalachian Mountains. This remains the definitive biography of the greatest figure in the English folk song and dance movement.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Illustrations
• Preface
• I : Boyhood and Early Manhood 1859–91
• II : Music as a Profession 1892–1905
• III : The Turning Point 1899–1902
• IV : Folk-Song Collecting 1903–14
• V : Folk-Song Crusade 1903–06
• VI : Definitions 1906–07
• VII : The Morris Dance 1905–10
• VIII : Controversy 1910–12
• IX : English Folk Dances and Folk-Dance Collecting 1906–14
• X : The English Folk Dance Society 1912−14
• XI : Visits to America 1914−18
• XII : The Appalachian Mountains I 1916
• XIII : The Appalachian Mountains II 1917−18
• XIV : Post-War England 1918−23
• XV : Last Days 1923–4
• XVI : Epilogue
• Cecil Sharp’s Publications
• APPENDIX : SUMMARY BY A. H. FOX STRANGWAYS
• Index
• Plates
• About the Author
• Copyright