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    A Morris Bibliography

    Books

    "Adderbury Tradition: Cotswold Morris Dancing"
    Tim Radford
    The Morris Federation
    1989
    ISBN 0 948383 05 4

    "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.

    "The Imagined Village: Culture, Ideology, and the English Folk Revival"
    Georgina Boyes
    Manchester University Press
    1993

    "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.

    Periodicals

    American Morris Newsletter
    editor@americanmorrisnews.org
    The annual Directory of Sides is the definitive list of all North American Morris.

    Country Dance and Song Society News
    Country Dance and Song Society of America
    17 New South Street
    Northampton, MA 01060

    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.