Longlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize. Acclaimed folklorist Steve Roud investigates the mysteries of English folk music's development, weighing in on the tradition's shifts from sixteenth century to present Longlisted for the Penderyn Music Book PrizeEngland was once dubbed 'the land without music', but in the early twentieth century collectors and enthusiasts such as Cecil Sharp, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Percy Grainger discovered a vital heritage of folk song, vibrant and alive among working men and women.
