Sam is "Discovered"
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | Sam is "Discovered" - Two Bold Singermen and the English Folk Revival |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Bruce Lindsay; Music Journalist and Social Historian; |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | Popular Music |
| 4. | Subject | Keyword(s) | English folk music; English social history; folklore; English traditional song; Sam Larner; Harry Cox; Norfolk singers; English singers; folk revival; Martin Carthy; Shirley Collins; Peggy Seeger; Young Tradition; Steeleye Span; Paul Simon; Bob Dylan |
| 5. | Subject | Subject classification | English Music; Folk Music; English social history |
| 6. | Description | Abstract | Harry was known to ‘outsiders’ – people who were not part of his local community – from the 1920s, despite continuing to live and work in rural Norfolk. Sam’s moment of fame came much later, when he was in his late 70s. Sam retired from fishing in his mid-50s, due to ill-health, lived quietly in Winterton working at odd jobs until he reached pension age and eventually came to the attention of a BBC producer in 1956. His voice was still strong and his personality and extrovert performing style quickly made him popular. This chapter explores Sam’s emergence as an important rural singer, through his meetings with Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger and Charles Parker, who recorded him over a three-year period. Sam was the key inspiration for “Singing the Fishing,” one of MacColl and Parker’s famous Radio Ballads which featured him as a singer and narrator. MacColl based one of his best-known songs, Shoals of Herring, on Sam’s stories. |
| 7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
| 8. | Contributor | Sponsor(s) | |
| 9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 20-Oct-2020 |
| 10. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
| 11. | Type | Type | |
| 12. | Format | File format | |
| 13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/books/article/view/38556 |
| 14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.38556 |
| 15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; Two Bold Singermen and the English Folk Revival |
| 16. | Language | English=en | en |
| 18. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) |
England, twentieth century |
| 19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |