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Andrew Burn, John Potter, Kate Cowan, Julia Bishop (eds.) (2025) Playing the Archive: From the Opies to the Digital Playground. London, UCL Press.
This book reflects on a major study inspired by the work of citizen scholar folklorists Iona and Peter Opie, exploring how the Opie Archive was made publicly available online, as well as the ethnographic strands of the project collecting evidence of new and old forms of play on today's playgrounds using digital methods. The book is open access at https://uclpress.co.uk/book/playing-the-archive/
Flint, A. (2024) Poetry, paths, and peatlands: integrating poetic inquiry within landscape heritage research. Landscape Research, 49 (1), 4-18.
Flint, A. (2024) Poetry, paths, and peatlands: integrating poetic inquiry within landscape heritage research. Landscape Research, 49 (1), 4-18.
Hield, F. (2024) Interventional Enculturation: Increasing and Diversifying Participation in the Folk Scene in England. Ethnomusicology Ireland, 9, 24-35.
Hield, F. (2024) Interventional Enculturation: Increasing and Diversifying Participation in the Folk Scene in England. Ethnomusicology Ireland, 9, 24-35.
Olusoga, Y. (2024) 'I danced on the road to the Macarena Song which felt a bit naughty': Affective entanglements and the wayfaring pandemic child. Global Studies of Childhood, 14 (1), 42-61. https://doi.org/10.1177/20436106241234027
Cowdell, P. (2024) 'The Sky is Too Big': Reclaimed Flatlands and Their Communities, What Happens When the Edge of the World Becomes Its Centre, and Romanticization in Fieldwork. Folklore, 135: 4, 633-656 https://doi.org/10.1080/0015587X.2024.2385155
Olusoga, Y., Bannister, C., Bishop, J., and Signorelli, V. (2022) 'Preserving the present: Designing a child-centered qualitative survey for a National Observatory of Children's Play.' SAGE Research Methods: Doing Research Online, SAGE Publications, Ltd.
Kay, Kirsty. 2022. “Csángó Space and Time in the Hungarian Táncház Revival.” In Cultural Memory and Popular Dance: Dancing to Remember, Dancing to Forget, edited by Clare Parfitt. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan.
Hadley, S., Hield, F. and Larrington, C. (2021) ‘Heritage, culture and artistic reciprocity: Remediating the mythical’ in Music and Heritage, Routledge. 56-64.
Jenkins, Richard, ‘Telling the forest from the trees: local images of national change in a Danish town’, Ethnos, vol. 71 (2006), pp. 367-89
Larrington, C. and Hield, F (2021) ‘Making ‘Modern Fairies’: Making Fairies Modern’ Folklore 132 (1), 72-96.
Hield, Fay and Manwaring, Kevin, (guest eds.)(2021) Revenant (6: Performing Fairy).
Bishop, J. (2021) 'The performers in the playground: Children's musical practices in play' in Harrop, P., Roud, S. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance, Routledge, 550-584.
Cowan, K., Potter, J., Olusoga, Y., et al. (2021) 'Children's digital play during the COVID-19 pandemic: insights from the Play Observatory. Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society 17 (3), 8-17.
Hield, Fay and Mansfield, Paul, (2020) ‘Anything goes? Recognising norms, leadership and moderating behaviours at folk clubs in England’ Ethnomusicology Forum, 338-361.
Ball, J, Bowring, T, Hield F & Pahl, K, (2019) ‘Co-writing about co-producing musical heritage: What happens when musicians and academics work together?’ In J Vergunst & H Graham (eds.) Heritage as community research: Legacies of co-production. Bristol: Policy Press, 51-64.
Jenkins, Richard, , The Unfortunate Rake’s Progress: A Case Study of the Construction of Folklore by Collectors and Scholars’, Folklore, vol. 130 (2019), pp. 111-132
Hield, F. & Price, S., (2018) ‘”I realised it was the same song”: Familiarisation, assimilation and making meaning with new folk music’ International Journal of Traditional Arts (2), 1-23.
Bradley, J. & Moore, E. (2018). Resemiotisation and creative production: Extending the translanguaging lens. In A. Sherris & E. Adami (Eds). Making signs, translanguaging ethnographies: Exploring urban, rural, and educational spaces. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, pp. 91-111.
Hield, F & Price, S. (2017) ‘"Old Adam was the first man formed": (In)forming and investigating listeners' experiences of new music as audience enrichment, public engagement and research’ Participations Journal of Audience and Reception Studies 17/1, 285-312.
Hearne, R., & Bramley, R. (2018). "Five: Some poems, a song and a prose piece". In Re-imagining Contested Communities. Bristol, UK: Policy Press.
Jenkins, R.‘The transformations of Biddy Early: From local reports of magical healing to globalised new age fantasies’, Folklore, vol. 118 (2007): 162-82
Bradley, J. (2017). Liquid Methodologies: Researching the ephemeral in multilingual street performance. In Conteh, J. (Ed), Ethnographic Principles in Qualitative Research: Making a Difference in Multilingual Contexts. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 153-172.
Hield, F and Crossley, N. (2015) ‘Tastes, Ties and Social Space: Exploring Sheffield’s Folk Singing World’ in Crossley, N, McAndrew, S. and Widdop, P (eds.) Social Networks and Music Worlds, London: Routledge, 189-216.
Hield, Fay. (2015) ‘In Defence of Revivals: Tradition and Community in a Contemporary English Folk Club’ in Atkinson, David and Roud, Steve (eds.), Proceedings of The English Folk Dance and Song Society Folk Song Conference 2013, 173-187.
Jenkins, Richard, Black Magic and Bogeymen: Fear, Rumour and Popular Belief in the North of Ireland 1972-74, Cork: Cork University Press, 2014 (2015 Folklore Society Katharine Briggs Award)
Bannister, C. (2014) '"Like a Scout Does... Like a Guide Does..." : The Scout or Guide Camp's Lessons of Identity.' In S. Mills and P. Kraftl (eds). Informal Education, Childhood and Youth. Palgrave Macmillan, 36-47.
Hield, F. (2013) ‘Negotiating participation in an English Singing Session’ in Russell, I and Ingram, C (eds.) Taking Part in Music: Case Studies in Ethnomusicology, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, in association with ESEM, 99-120.
Bannister, C. (2022) Scouting and Guiding in Britain: The Ritual Socialisation of Young People. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
Flint, A., and Jennings, B. (2020) Saturated with meaning: peatlands, heritage and folklore. Time and Mind, 13( (3), 283-305.
Liu, X. W. (2023) Becoming-monster: Ecoaesthetics and feminist criticism of Chinese animation White Snake (2019), East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, 9 (1), 119-135, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/eapc_00092_1.
Beresin, Anna and Bishop, Julia (eds) (2023) Play in a Covid Frame: Everyday Pandemic Creativity in a Time of Isolation, Open Book Publishers, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0326
Smith, K. (2024) Folklore, Geography, and Environment: Ways of Knowing Water, Landscape, and Climate in the Anthropocene. Folklore, 135:4, 525-533. https://doi.org/10.1080/0015587X.2024.2403864
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