Victorian Songhunters

Victorian Songhunters
Author: E. David Gregory
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 458
Release: 2006
Genre: Ballads, English
ISBN: 0810857030

Victorian Songhunters is a history of popular song collecting and ballad editing from 1820 to 1883. It is a comprehensive telling of the Victorian vernacular song revival leading up to the Eduardian folksong festival, and includes information on the folksong revival in Scotland.