A. L. Lloyd and the English Folk Song Revival, 1934-44
Abstract
F. David Gregory outlines the genesis and
contents of A.L. Lloyd's 1944 history of English folk
song,The Singing Englishman. Focusing on Lloyd's
working-class childhood, subsequent jobs in
Australia, London and Antarctica, contact with A.L.
Morton, studies at the British A4useuin, leftist
journalism, and BBC broadcasts, Gregory counters
criticisms of Lloyd's writings by Maud Karpeles and
Vic Gwninon and demonstrates Lloyd 's importance
for the post-1945 Revival.