Vic Gammon


Vic Gammon recently retired from being Senior Lecturer in Folk and Traditional Music, but continues to be a guest member of staff at the International Centre for Music Studies at the Newcastle University. He is also a singer, plays concertina and melodeon and has recorded an album of traditional songs, ‘Black Crow, White Crow’ with Annie Dearman and Steve Harrison for the EFDSS. He has published widely on aspects of folk culture including a book of essays, Desire, Drink and Death in English Folk and Vernacular Song, 1600-1900 (Ashgate, 2008).

Website: Vic Gammon

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