A Morris Bibliography

Books

Morris Dance in America
Proceedings of the 1991 Conference
Anthony G. Barrand & Jocelyn Reynolds (eds.)
1991
Many vignettes regarding the life and times of American teams.

A Handbook of Morris Dances
Lionel Bacon
The Morris Ring
1974
The most concise reference for Cotswold (& Border) morris dances and tunes.

The Morris Book
Volumes 1-5
1911-1924
Cecil J. Sharp and Herbert C. MacIlwaine
The Morris Ring
1991
ISBN 0-9503402-3-5
The original text from the man who brought morris back from the brink of extinction.

Ribbons, Bells and Squeaking Fiddles
The Social History of Morris Dancing in the English South Midlands
1660-1900
Keith Chandler
Hisarlik Press
1993
ISBN 1 874312 06 0
Essential historical reading about the heyday of morris.

The Imagined Village:
Culture, Ideology, and the English Folk Revival
Georgina Boyes
Manchester University Press
1993
Dirty laundry of the individuals responsible for the dances and music we love.

``A Standard to Live up To'':
A Study of the Ring O'Bells
A New York-based Women's Morris Team
Jocelyn Bronwyn Reynolds
Master's Thesis
Boston University Professors Program
1992 (rev. 1993/94)
Personal insights into the origin of the first American women's morris.

Six Fools and a Dancer
The Timeless Way of the Morris
Anthony G. Barrand
Northern Harmony Publishing Company, Plainfield, VT
1991
ISBN 0-9627554-1-9
The most scholarly single work available on American morris.

Roy Dommett's Morris Notes
Volumes I-V
Anthony G. Barrand (ed.)
Country Dance and Song Society
1986
More information on each and every tradition than any normal person could consume.

Annals of Early Morris
John Forrest & Michael Heaney
CECTAL in association with the Morris Ring
1991
An index of all known references to morris.

Longsword Dances from Traditional and Manuscript Sources:
as collated and notated by
Ivor Allsop
Edited by Anthony G. Barrand
Northern Harmony Publishing Company
1996
Proclaimed as the ``Bacon'' of Longsword Dances.

Sword Dancing: A History
Stephen D. Corrsin
Enfield Lock: Hisarlik Press , for the Folklore Society
1996
Previews of this book have appeared in the Morris Dance Discussion List.

Orchesography
Thoinot Arbeau
1589
A treatise in the form of a dialogue whereby all manner of persons may easily acquire and practise the honourable exercise of dancing. Several translations of this text are now available. This old instructional manual for dance almost certainly does not describe the morris as we know it; however it almost certainly employs terminology which was applied to the steps of Cotswold morris.

Periodicals

Country Dance and Song Society News
Country Dance and Song Society of America
17 New South Street
Northampton, MA 01060
ISSN 1070-8251
This newsletter is published six times per year by CDSS.

Country Dance and Song
Country Dance and Song Society
17 New South Street
Northampton, MA 01060
This is the annual journal of the CDSS.

Bay Area Country Dancer
Bay Area Country Dance Society
P.O. Box 22165
San Francisco, CA 94122
This newsletter is published four times per year by BACDS.

Electronic Sources

Various WWW Pages
The flagship index of links is maintained by Jeff Bigler. Alternatively, a geographically sorted list of links is available from Rich Holmes.

The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library
Mike Heaney (maint.)
A contemporary of Cecil Sharp also involved in folk collection.

The CDSS Archives
University of New Hampshire (maint.)
The index to a large collection of material pertaining to the history of folkdance and music in the US.