Elizabeth Bennett is an interdisciplinary researcher and lecturer, based in the UK. Her research and teaching areas include music, theatre, performance studies and creative writing. She was co-organizer of the ground-breaking conferences ‘Women in the Folk’ (2018) and ‘Street Music’ (2019).

Original in both form and content, Performing Folk Songs will come to be seen as a significant text in terms of critical scholarship on the interrelations of Englishness, folk song and feminism. It arrives at an important moment in British debates over folk traditions, nationalism, diversification and decolonization and engages with these openly and courageously.

• List of SongsList of FiguresPreludeIntroductionPart 1: Theory and Methodology1:1 Affect Theory1:2 Auto/Sensory/Ethnography1:3 The Archive in Performance1.4: LandscapingPart 2: Practice2:1 Footpaths2:2 Women2:3 Lines2:4 Childhood2:5 Legacies2.6 Dorothy Marshall: A Small Story2.7 Life-writingConclusion: Part 1: 2017Conclusion: Part 2: 2022

Elizabeth Bennett is an interdisciplinary researcher and lecturer, based in the UK. Her research and teaching areas include music, theatre, performance studies and creative writing. She was co-organizer of the ground-breaking conferences ‘Women in the Folk’ (2018) and ‘Street Music’ (2019).

Original in both form and content, Performing Folk Songs will come to be seen as a significant text in terms of critical scholarship on the interrelations of Englishness, folk song and feminism. It arrives at an important moment in British debates over folk traditions, nationalism, diversification and decolonization and engages with these openly and courageously.

• List of SongsList of FiguresPreludeIntroductionPart 1: Theory and Methodology1:1 Affect Theory1:2 Auto/Sensory/Ethnography1:3 The Archive in Performance1.4: LandscapingPart 2: Practice2:1 Footpaths2:2 Women2:3 Lines2:4 Childhood2:5 Legacies2.6 Dorothy Marshall: A Small Story2.7 Life-writingConclusion: Part 1: 2017Conclusion: Part 2: 2022

Elizabeth Bennett is an interdisciplinary researcher and lecturer, based in the UK. Her research and teaching areas include music, theatre, performance studies and creative writing. She was co-organizer of the ground-breaking conferences ‘Women in the Folk’ (2018) and ‘Street Music’ (2019).

Original in both form and content, Performing Folk Songs will come to be seen as a significant text in terms of critical scholarship on the interrelations of Englishness, folk song and feminism. It arrives at an important moment in British debates over folk traditions, nationalism, diversification and decolonization and engages with these openly and courageously.

• List of SongsList of FiguresPreludeIntroductionPart 1: Theory and Methodology1:1 Affect Theory1:2 Auto/Sensory/Ethnography1:3 The Archive in Performance1.4: LandscapingPart 2: Practice2:1 Footpaths2:2 Women2:3 Lines2:4 Childhood2:5 Legacies2.6 Dorothy Marshall: A Small Story2.7 Life-writingConclusion: Part 1: 2017Conclusion: Part 2: 2022