Folk Music Journal (FMJ) is a unique specialist scholarly journal. Published by the English Folk Dance and Song Society, it is the annual publication of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library.
Folk Music Journal publishes articles on folk song, music, dance, and related customs, interpreted in the broadest sense, and welcomes a wide range of disciplinary approaches, both theoretical and empirical, historical and contemporary. The journal seeks to combine erudition and accessibility in a manner that is intelligible to non-specialists and academics alike. The main area of coverage lies in, but is not confined to, the English-speaking world.
History
The publication first appeared in 1899 as the Journal of the Folk-Song Society. From 1932 onwards, it incorporated dance within its brief as the Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society. It assumed its current title in 1965. Many eminent scholars have been associated with the Journal. These include Lucy Broadwood, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Frank Kidson, Percy Grainger, Lady Gomme, Cecil Sharp, Frank Howes, Anne Geddes Gilchrist, Patrick Shuldham-Shaw, Maud Karpeles, Margaret Dean-Smith, Douglas Kennedy, AL Lloyd.