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- Title
Distilling the Essence: Angela Carter and the Folk Song Collectors.
- Authors
PAULUSMA, POLLY
- Abstract
Angela Carter, one of the greatest British post-war novelists, is already well known for her modern treatment of traditional folk and fairy tales. A new private archive, containing notebooks, LPs, books, and recordings, has recently come to light in Bristol which proves beyond doubt that Carter played an active role in the traditional folk scene in Bristol during the 1960s as a singer, a player, and a scholar, alongside her first husband, producer and field recordist Paul Carter. As part of a wider study of the influence of folk singing on Carter's literary works, this article examines how Carter the editor and curator learned from folk song collectors how to repurpose traditional material, and in particular from A. L. Lloyd, who performed as a guest at the Carters' Bristol folk club.
- Subjects
FOLK song collecting; COLLECTORS &; collecting; FOLKLORE collecting; FOLK music; CANON (Literature)
- Publication
Folk Music Journal, 2023, Vol 12, Issue 3, p56
- ISSN
0531-9684
- Publication type
Article