Céline Sciamma on her film Petite Maman, author Sarah Moss on The Fell, diversity in folk arts
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Do You See Diversity in Folk Music?
Sara moss's novel, the fell is out now. In 19 o three, a vegetarian music teacher, cecil sharp, overheard a gardener called john england singing the seeds of love as he mowed the vicarage lawn in somerset. He noted down the song, and that was the first of four thousand 997 songs and tunes he was eventually to collect on his travels around england and the appellation mountains in america. Papers were presented on subjects ranging from the black origins of sea shanties to how to increase and diversify participation in english folk singing. I'm joined now by the singer and academic fay heald, the author of that
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