The Morris Book with a description of Dances as Performed by the
Morris Men of England by Cecil J Sharp & Herbert Macilwaine,Part one.
1912, A smal amount of loss to top and bottom paper of spine, a few
paragraphs underlined ,otherwise a good sound copy.122 pages.

Very scarce early book on Morris, a real gem. Although entitled part
one,they were origianally sold as stand alone books. Covers all sort
of aspects,here are a few, Costume,Formations,Character,
Steps.Hands ,Headington dances (many),Ilmington dances, The Tideswell
dance etc.

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Ruthie wrote:
> The Morris Book with a description of Dances as Performed by the
> Morris Men of England by Cecil J Sharp & Herbert Macilwaine,Part one.
> 1912, A smal amount of loss to top and bottom paper of spine, a few
> paragraphs underlined ,otherwise a good sound copy.122 pages.
> 
> Very scarce early book on Morris, a real gem. Although entitled part
> one,they were origianally sold as stand alone books. Covers all sort
> of aspects,here are a few, Costume,Formations,Character,
> Steps.Hands ,Headington dances (many),Ilmington dances, The Tideswell
> dance etc.
> 
.....
As a matter of interest, does it mention blacking-up?

Peter

Peter J Seymour wrote:
> Ruthie wrote:
>> The Morris Book with a description of Dances as Performed by the
>> Morris Men of England by Cecil J Sharp & Herbert Macilwaine,Part one.
>> 1912, A smal amount of loss to top and bottom paper of spine, a few
>> paragraphs underlined ,otherwise a good sound copy.122 pages.
>>
>> Very scarce early book on Morris, a real gem. Although entitled part
>> one,they were origianally sold as stand alone books. Covers all sort
>> of aspects,here are a few, Costume,Formations,Character,
>> Steps.Hands ,Headington dances (many),Ilmington dances, The Tideswell
>> dance etc.
>>
> ......
> As a matter of interest, does it mention blacking-up?
> 
> Peter

Extremely unlikely - Cecil Sharp regarded anything other than the South 
Midlands (a.k.a. Cotswold) Morris dances as degenerate and not worth 
recording, and blackface is far more characteristic  of the dances 
recorded in the Welsh borders.

There is a good deal of historical evidence for blackface, but C#'s 
books aren't the place to look for it.


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Steve Mansfield
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Steve Mansfield wrote:
> Peter J Seymour wrote:
>> Ruthie wrote:
>>> The Morris Book with a description of Dances as Performed by the
>>> Morris Men of England by Cecil J Sharp & Herbert Macilwaine,Part one.
>>> 1912, A smal amount of loss to top and bottom paper of spine, a few
>>> paragraphs underlined ,otherwise a good sound copy.122 pages.
>>>
>>> Very scarce early book on Morris, a real gem. Although entitled part
>>> one,they were origianally sold as stand alone books. Covers all sort
>>> of aspects,here are a few, Costume,Formations,Character,
>>> Steps.Hands ,Headington dances (many),Ilmington dances, The Tideswell
>>> dance etc.
>>>
>> ......
>> As a matter of interest, does it mention blacking-up?
>>
>> Peter
> 
> Extremely unlikely - Cecil Sharp regarded anything other than the South 
> Midlands (a.k.a. Cotswold) Morris dances as degenerate and not worth 
> recording, and blackface is far more characteristic  of the dances 
> recorded in the Welsh borders.
> 
> There is a good deal of historical evidence for blackface, but C#'s 
> books aren't the place to look for it.
> 

Some interesting stuff here,  including reference to fifteenth century 
black-face Morris in Germany.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Morris

Beware,  it's Wikipedia and so possibly (at least no longer 'probably') 
either inaccurate or controversial...



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