Hagmann, Lea Salome (2020). 'It's Gold dust what she's doing!' Female Engagement in Transforming the Cornish Music and Dance Revival. In: Roud, Stephen (ed.) Locating Women in the Folk (pp. 53-58). Worthing: Sussex Tradition
Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)When the Cornish Music and Dance Revival started in the late 1970s, it was primarily male-dominated. Musicians and researchers such as the Davey brothers aimed at reviving Cornish music as ‘Celtic Music’, thereby excluding traditions which were considered ‘English’ and therefore ‘foreign’.
However, about two decades later, women started actively to engage in the Revival, giving it a completely new direction, which has been severely criticised by the former revivalists. They aimed at transforming the Revival from being part of the Cornish nationalist movement, whose primary aim was to represent Cornwall at Interceltic festivals, towards an all-inclusive hybrid form of community music making and dancing. Three women in particular, Frances Bennett, Hilary Coleman and Karen Lockley-Brown, have played essential parts in founding the Cornish Nos Lowen-movement, which severely differs from the former Revival.
This paper explores in what ways these three women engaged in the Cornish Music and Dance Revival and follows their main projects:
- Cumpas: the Cornish music project, which aimed at disseminating Cornish culture by means of school projects, teaching resources and community events
- Bagas Crowd: the cross-generational community fiddle group, where people engage in learning and developing Cornish instrumental music
- Second Wave Dance Arts, which not only serves at creating and bonding communities through the newly invented Cornish Nos Lowen dancing but also works therapeutically for families in trouble and disaffected teenagers, and
- The Red River Singers, who engage in researching, reviving and creating Cornish singing traditions.
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Book Section (Book Chapter) |
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Division/Institute: |
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Musicology 12 Faculty Centers > Center for Cultural Studies (CCS) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Hagmann, Lea Salome |
Subjects: |
700 Arts > 780 Music 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 390 Customs, etiquette & folklore 700 Arts |
ISBN: |
078-1-5272-5719-1 |
Publisher: |
Sussex Tradition |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Lea Salome Hagmann |
Date Deposited: |
01 Apr 2022 11:08 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 16:11 |
Additional Information: |
Conference Proceedings, Sussex, 2018 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Cornwall, Celtic, Music, Revival, Women, Folk |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/166259 |
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