Stephen Sedley and Martin Carthy, Who Killed Cock Robin?: British Folk Songs of Crime and Punishment.

Authors

  • Jon Stewart BIMM Institute, Brighton Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/pomh.21838

Keywords:

folk music, Martin Carthy, crime, punishment, compendium, anthology

Abstract

Stephen Sedley and Martin Carthy, Who Killed Cock Robin?: British Folk Songs of Crime and Punishment. London: Reaktion Books / English Folk Dance and Song Society, 2021. 280 pp. ISBN 978-1789145038 (hbk). £14.99.

References

Parkinson, N. 1948. The Trade Winds: A Study of British Overseas Trade during the French Wars 1793–1815. London: George Allen & Unwin.

Sedley, S. 1967. The Seeds of Love: A Comprehensive Anthology of Folk Songs of the British Isles. London: Essex Music Limited.

Zierke, R. 2021. ‘The Seeds of Love’. Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music. https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/books/theseedsoflove.html

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Published

2022-06-23

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 3

Section

Reviews

License

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How to Cite

Stewart, J. (2022). Stephen Sedley and Martin Carthy, Who Killed Cock Robin?: British Folk Songs of Crime and Punishment. Popular Music History, 14(3), 291-294. https://doi.org/10.1558/pomh.21838