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Cecil Sharp in Somerset: some reflections on the work of David Harker
Folklore, April, 2002 by C.J. Bearman
Harker, David. Introduction to Rhymes of Northern Bards edited by John Bell. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Frank Graham, 1971.
Harker, David. "Cecil Sharp in Somerset: Some Conclusions." Folk Music Journal 2 (1972):220-40.
Harker, Dave. Fakesong: the manufacture of British "folksong" 1700 to the present day. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1985.
Hobsbawm, Eric and Terence Ranger, eds. The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Karpeles, Maud. Cecil Sharp: His Life and Work. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967.
Karpeles, Maud. "Folk Words." Unpublished TSS in the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, Cecil Sharp House, London.
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Lloyd, A. L. Folk Song in England. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1967.
Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. "The Communist Manifesto." In The Portable Karl Marx, ed. Eugene Kamenka. 203-41. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983.
Mitrany, David. Marx Against the Peasant: A Study in Social Dogmatism. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1951.
Newall, W. A. "In the Footsteps of Cecil Sharp." English Dance and Song 7 (1943):26-8.
Pickering, Michael. "Recent Folk Music Scholarship in England: A Critique." Folk Music Journal 6 (1990):37-64.
Reeves, James. The Idiom of the People: English Traditional Verse edited with an Introduction and Notes from the Manuscripts of Cecil Sharp. London: Heinemann, 1958.
Reeves, James. Letter, Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society 9 (1960):55.
Sharp, Cecil J. English Folk Song: Some Conclusions. London: Simpkin, Novello/Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, 1907.
Sharp, Cecil J. Field Notebooks. Unpublished MSS in the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, Cecil Sharp House, London.
Sharp, Cecil J. Sharp Correspondence. Unpublished MSS collection held in the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, Cecil Sharp House, London.
Sharp, Cecil J. and Sabine Baring-Gould. English Folk-Songs for Schools. London: Curwen and Co., n.d. [1906].
Sharp, Cecil J. and Charles L Marson. See Folk Songs from Somerset.
Shaw, Christopher and Malcolm Chase. "The Dimensions of Nostalgia." In The Imagined Past: History and Nostalgia, ed. Christopher Shaw and Malcolm Chase. 1-17. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989.
Strangways, A. H. Fox and Maud Karpeles. Cecil Sharp. London: Oxford University Press, 1933; 1955.
C. J. Bearman left school at sixteen and for more than twenty-five years worked in clerical employments and in light industry. He entered Hull University in 1991, and in 2001 completed his Ph.D. thesis, "The English Folk Music Movement 1898-1914." His most important publications to date are "Kate Lee and the Foundation of the Folk Song Society" (Folk Music Journal 1999) and "Who Were the Folk? The Demography of Cecil Sharp's Somerset Folk Singers" (Historical Journal 2000).
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