{"id":1093,"date":"2020-02-22T16:25:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T16:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=1093"},"modified":"2021-02-21T07:46:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T07:46:30","slug":"folk-from-the-halls","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/folk-from-the-halls\/","title":{"rendered":"Folk from the Halls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Songs sung in the Music Hall that became folk songs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Songs that were written, usually by a known author, that were sung in music hall, and later have entered the folksong tradition.<\/em> My criteria for “becoming a folksong” is that the song has been collected from one or more recognised source singers as recorded in the Vaughan Williams Memorial library. A smaller selection focusing only on the best known songs is given under the Folk or Music Hall?<\/a> song theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[I did start by trying to distinguish between songs traditional singers perform knowing they come from the Halls, and those they perform unknowingly. This may be a useful distinction to explore in future, but for now I’m putting it one side.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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