{"id":11169,"date":"2020-10-04T18:32:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T22:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=11169"},"modified":"2024-05-07T11:58:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T15:58:03","slug":"anthony-barrand","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/profile\/anthony-barrand\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Barrand"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Areas of Expertise<\/h4>\n<p><em>Folklore; dancing; Morris, sword, and clog dancing; English ballads<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>About Professor Barrand<\/h4>\n<p>Dr. Anthony Barrand has retired from the faculty of Boston University where he taught folklore of dance and song and psychological approaches to the arts. His collection of films and videos of Morris, sword, and clog dancing are incorporated in the Archive of American Folk Culture at the Library of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Barrand has sung and recorded with John Roberts, his partner of almost 40 years. More information about and recordings of their performances are available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldenhindmusic.com\/\">online<\/a> and on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Nowell-Sing-We-Clear-159492537405661\/\">Facebook<\/a>. They are widely acclaimed interpreters of English ballads and songs, perhaps best known for the popular annual Christmas pageant, \u201cNowell Sing We Clear.\u201d Among the many recordings of their duet singing is<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Naulakha Redux<\/em>, a collection of musical settings of Rudyard Kipling poems, which they first performed at the re-opening of Kipling\u2019s \u201cNaulakha\u201d in 1996. Prof. Barrand\u2019s research interests and publications have ranged from Morris and clog dancing to shape note singing. In 2003 Prof. Barrand was invited to deposit his fieldwork collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbin\/dance\/\">Morris Sword and Clog Dancing videos<\/a> and film to the Archive of Folk Culture at the Library of Congress.<\/p>\n<h4>Media Coverage<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Prof. Barrand interviewed by BU Today: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2011\/who-was-st-patrick-anyway-2\/\">&#8220;Who Was St. Patrick Anyway?&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Prof. Barrand interviewed by BU Today: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2010\/thanksgiving-the-making-of-an-american-holiday-3\/\">&#8220;Thanksgiving: The Making of an American Holiday&#8221;\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":9123,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15771,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11169\/revisions\/15771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}