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Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell: Scarborough Fayre-Traditional Tunes from the British Isles and the New World

Read "Scarborough Fayre-Traditional Tunes from the British Isles and the New World" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century popular music provides a unique prism through which to view how our present structures have evolved. Scarborough Fayre-Traditional Tunes from the British Isles and the New World is a cleverly programmed cycle of songs and song types common in Britain and America before and after American independence. It is enlightenment, for example, to learn the celtic roots of bluegrass music. And just how close the two sound alike. The celtic tradition looms large in this collection ...

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