'Once more to the mouths of the people': Vaughan Williams and folk song

Call for papers

Conference of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, English Folk Dance and Song Society, 2022

''12 – 13 November, Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent’s Park Road, London, NW1 7AY, and online.''

The VWML’s 2022 conference considers Ralph Vaughan Williams in his 150th anniversary year, examining his relationship with folk song. We invite proposals for papers on any aspect the subject, including (but not limited to) Vaughan Williams as folk song collector; his philosophies and motivations; his relationship with his fellow collectors, composers and folklorists, and his use of folk material in his compositions and arrangements for the concert hall and church. Papers may be delivered either in-person or remotely.

Proposals should be no more than 300 words long, and if selected, resulting papers will last c. 20 minutes followed by c. 10 minutes of questions.

Please email proposals to Tiffany Hore, Library and Archives Director, at tiffany@efdss.org, by 5pm BST on Friday 15 July.