Archive of Folk Culture Collections
Anthony Grant Barrand Collection of Morris, Sword, and Clog Dancing,
AFC 2003/005
Traditional American and English Morris, Sword, and Clog dancing
and drama on film and video, 1975-present. Includes Marlboro,
Vermont, Morris Ale, 1976-2002,
and Marlboro Morris and Sword and Green Mountain Mummers, 1979-2002.
Goathland,
North Yorkshire, Sword Dance Photograph Collection, AFC
1983/007
Seven photographs of Plough Stotts Long Sword team from Goathland,
North Yorkshire, England, ca. 1912-50.
James
Madison Carpenter Collection, AFC 1972/001
Traditional song and drama with items of traditional instrumental music, dance,
custom, narrative and children's folklore from England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland
and the United States, documented in the period 1927-55.
Audio Recordings
- Jump Jim Joe: Great Singing Games for Children. Brattleboro, Vt.:
New England Dancing Masters, 1991.
- LC call number not available
- Longsword: The Music. London: English Folk Dance and Song Society,
[2001?].
- LC call number not available
- Merry It Is While Summer Lasts: A Collection of Medieval
and Traditional Music. London: CRD Records, 1983.
- LC call number: CRD Records CRD 1112
- Morris On. London: Island, 1972.
- LC call number: Island Help 5
- Old English Melodies. Nashville, Tenn.: Green Hill Productions,
1977.
- LC call number: SDA 14141
- Sheepskins. Aston on Clun, Shropshire: Squeezer Records, 1988.
- LC call number: RYC 1045
- Six English Folk Dance Tunes. Bridgeport, Conn.: Columbia Masterworks,
1939.
- LC call number: RBA 01839-01841
- To Welcome in the Spring. Voorheesville, N.Y.: Front Hall, 1980.
- LC call number: Front Hall FHR 022
Print Sources: Books
- Bacon, Lionel. A Handbook of Morris Dances. London: Morris Ring,
1986.
- LC call number: GV1796.M7 B33 1986
- Barrand, Anthony G. English Clog Dance Steps: Hornpipe, Waltz
and Reel. Boston: School for Traditional Dance and Song Press,
1983.
- LC call number: GV1793 .B37 1983
- -----, ed. Longsword Dances from Traditional and Manuscript Sources
as Collated and Notated by Ivor Allsop. Brattleboro, Vt.: Northern
Harmony Publishing Co., 1996.
- LC call number not available
- -----. Six Fools and a Dancer: The Timeless Way of the Morris.
Plainfield, Vt.: Northern Harmony Publishing Co., 1991.
- LC call number not available
- Berger, Melvin. The World of Dance. New York: S.G. Phillips, 1978.
- LC call number: GV1601 .B47
- Brower, Josephine, ed. The Morris Dance: Descriptions of
Eleven Dances as Performed by the Morris-men of England. New York: H.W.
Gray Co., 1910.
- LC call number: GV1796.M7 B8
- Cleaver, Bert. Fieldtown Dances and Jigs. [N.p.], England: B.
Cleaver, 1985.
- LC call number: GV1796.M7 C52 1985
- -----. Sherborne Dances and Jigs. [N.p.], England: B.Cleaver,
1983.
- LC call number: GV1796.M7 C54 1983
- Cripps, Peter S. The Morris: A Living Tradition, England's
Glory Ladies Morris and the Ilmington Dances. Apperley, Gloucester:
Vale Publishing Services, 1991.
- LC call number: GV1796.M7 C75 1991
- Douce, Francis. Illustrations of Shakespeare, and of ancient
manners: with Dissertations on the Clowns and Fools of Shakespeare. 2 vols.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807.
- LC call number: PR3004 .D6
- Forrest, John. The History of Morris Dancing, 1458-1750. Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 1999.
- LC call number: GV1796.M7 F66 1999
- Garland, Mike. The Morris Tradition. London: Morris Ring, 1990.
- LC call number: GV1796.M7 G37 1990z
- Karpeles, Maud. Lancashire Morris Dance Tunes. London: Novello & Co.
Ltd., 1930.
- LC call number: M1740.K24 L3
- Kennedy, Douglas, ed. An Introduction to the Morris Dances
of England, Comprising Six Dances from The Morris Book. London: Nevello,
1955.
- LC call number: GV1796.M7 K4
- Kidson, Frank, and Mary Neal. English Folk-song and Dance. Wakefield:
EP Publishing, 1972.
- LC call number: ML3652 .K53 1972b
- Langstaff, John. Celebrate the Spring: Spring and May Day
Celebrations for Schools and Communities. [N.p.]: Revels, Inc., 1998.
- LC call number not available
- Malam, John. Song and Dance. New York: Franklin Watts, 2000.
- LC call number: ML3928 .M3 2000
- Nibs, Matthews, ed. Eight Morris Dances of England: And Flanborough
Sword Dance. London: English Folk Dance and Song Society, 1975.
- LC call number: GV1796.M7 M37
- Old Meg of Herefordshire for a Mayd Marian and Hereford Towne
for a Morris Daunce or Twelve Morris Dancers in Herefordshire of
Twelve Hundred Years Old. London: John Budge, 1609; reprint, London:
R. Triphook, 1816.
- LC call number: DA310 .M5 vol. 2
- Peck, Arthur. The Morris and Sword Dances of England. 12th ed.
London: The Morris Ring, 1973.
- LC call number: GV1796.M7 P42 1973
- Rippon, Hugh. Discovering English Folk Dance. Aylesbury: Shire Publications,
1975.
- LC call number: GV1646.E6 R55
- Rowe, Doc. With a Crash and a Din Comes the Morris Dancer
in--: A Celebration of Fifty Years of the Morris Ring, 1934-1984. [N.p.],
England: Morris Ring, 1984.
- LC call number: MLCM 86/11758 (G)
- Sharp, Cecil James, and Herbert C. MacIlwaine. The Morris
Book: With a Description of Dances as Performed by the Morrismen
of
England. 2d ed. London: Novello, 1912-24; reprint of parts 1,
2, 3, Wakefield: EP Publishing, 1974.
- LC call number: GV1796.M7 S522 1974
- Williams, Iolo Aneurin. English Folk-song and Dance. London: Longmans,
Green, 1935; reprint, Norwood, Pa.: Norwood Editions, 1978.
- LC call number: ML3652 .W54 1978
Print Sources: Periodicals
- American Morris Newsletter. Reprint series. Published since 1977.
- LC call number: GV1796.M7 A443
- Folklore. Routledge. British peer-reviewed journal published since
1890.
- LC call number not available
- The Morris Dancer: A Newsletter Sponsored by the Morris Ring. Published since 1978.
- LC call number: GV1796.M7 M67
- Morris Matters. Windsor. Published since 1978.
- LC call number: WMLC L 83/102
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