Time is Away - The Singing Stream: Singers, Songs and Song Collectors 17th June 2019 | Listen on NTS

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Spoken Word Ambient Psychedelic Folk

Time is Away explores how recording technology enabled the capture of folk music in the United States and Europe across the 20th century. Like the practice of collecting, the programme is shaped by the tensions between college-educated song collectors, folklorists, singers and audiences seeking out the music of marginalised, dispossessed and disenfranchised people. At the programme’s heart is some truly heart-stopping music about love, death, redemption and renewal, which prompts questions about 'authenticity', community, labour, political participation and the power imbalances that influence whose culture gets airspace and on what terms.

With contributions from: Anne Briggs, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Shirley Collins, Jean Ritchie, Pete Seeger, Alan Lomax and A. L. Lloyd.

Collection: The Human Voice

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Tracklist

Joseph TaylorJoseph Taylor
Murder Of Maria Martin
John CarlinJohn Carlin
Eilean Mo Chrìdh (Isle Of My Heart)
Vera Ward HallVera Ward Hall
Mama’s Gonna Buy

The WatersonsThe Watersons
The Holly Bears A Berry
Trallaleri Of GenoaTrallaleri Of Genoa
La Partenza (The Parting)
The Copper FamilyThe Copper Family
Babes In The Wood
Shirley CollinsShirley Collins
The Oxford Girl
Alec BloomfieldAlec Bloomfield
Shoot Them All (The Box Upon Her Head)
Antonina SergiAntonina Sergi
Ninna Nanna (Lullaby)
Anne BriggsAnne Briggs
Lowlands
Berzilla WallinBerzilla Wallin
Conversation With Death
Bessie JonesBessie Jones
O Death
Sarah Ogun GunningSarah Ogun Gunning
Down On The Pickett Line
Yvonne HunterYvonne Hunter
Have You Ever Been Mistreated
Mary TownsleyMary Townsley
Young But Growing
Bessie EldritchBessie Eldritch
I Wouldn't Marry At All
Jean RichieJean Richie
Jackaro
The WatersonsThe Watersons
John Barleycorn
A. L. LloydA. L. Lloyd
The Turtle Dove (Roud 422)