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Folklife Traditions Journal

Our aims include stimulating a wider interest in folk studies & folk culture:

we seek to raise awareness of relevant Societies, Institutions, Researchers, Publications

We welcome your learned articles for interested readers, but note we’re not a peer-reviewed journal.
• Please see Articles Index for past articles.

CONTRIBUTIONS WELCOME for appropriate articles; contact us first, please. See "FTJ: contribute & contribute"

• Articles - check first if timely, as might be held over; up to 2500 words.
• News up to 200 words, we can usually fit in if received by deadline.
We welcome:
• Songs, tunes, dances, & stories collected
• Information about relevant Societies & Institutions & Researchers, Conferences & Talks

• Relevant books announced (exceptionally CDs eg traditional singers) - up to 200 words, more if advert, or at editor’s discretion
• Seasonal Local Celebrations, based on Doc Rowe’s listings, additions welcome

Subscriptions, Adverts, and Donations - please see foot of page

email sam@folklife.uk

FTJ articles: index

FTJ articles: index LIsts of authors and their articles. Links to each issue's free PDFs downloads & list of contents

FTJ issues: index

The issues: started as Folklife West Journal (FW being our folk-news magazine), then changed to Folklife Traditions when omitted folk club material.
Later added Journal after Folklife Traditions, as simpler to explain on Zoom during Covid that Folklife Traditions Journal wasn't a folk-news magazine.
Was part of Folklife West, which changed name to Folklife Quarterly when it became quarterly, now 3 per year, so that name has gone back to Folklife West.

Here are the various issues' webpages, arranged in order of when they were published.

Each has links to each issue's free PDFs downloads & list of contents.

FWJ 01-09 ~ Folklife West Journal, started with a grant for FWJ 01, published as a separate magazine, includes some folk club material, published irregularly,

After FWJ 07, also available as part of Folklife West, later renamed Folklife Quarterly when became quarterly
After FWJ 08; starting with FT 09, it was renamed as Folklife Traditions

There is no FT 10-35 !, as after FT 09, renumbered to be same number as Folklife Quarterly (FT becoming pages within FQ), so next was FT 36 (in FQ 36).

FT 36-46 ~ Folklife Traditions, published as part of Folklife Quarterly

FT 47-56 ~ Folklife Traditions, published as part of Folklife Quarterly

FT 57-66 ~ Folklife Traditions, published as part of Folklife Quarterly

Continuing as part of Folklife Quarterly (FQ) whose name changed back to Folklife West, when no longer quarterly, as of FT 59

From FTJ 67, name changed to Folklife Traditions Journal (the term 'Journal' flags up it's not a folk-news magazine), but continuing as part of Folklife West (which is a folk-news magazine).

FTJ 67-73 ~ Folklife Traditions Journal, published as part of Folklife Quarterly

FTJ 74-80 ~ Folklife Traditions Journal, now published separately (as combined magazine became too big to edit in time for publication dates)

Note: FWJ 01 to FW 56 as e-magazines. When we started, we produced e--magazines on "Issuu". It was free; became paid-for, so FT 56 was the last one as e-magazine. We can't access or modify the site unless we sign up (£23/month+VAT !). Instead, we've created pdfs for you to download, for all issues, from 01 to date.

Issuu sometimes still accessible, so for each of FWJ 01 - FW 56 we've included a link to that issue's e-magazine on Issuu.

FTJ single issues: index

Single Issues — from FT-65 onwards as well as PDFs to download, also has subpages with individual issues as images (jpgs) to read online

Exceptionally, FT 65-66 & FTJ 67-75 are on the old site on https://folklife-traditions.weebly.com

Single issues from FTJ 76 (November 2024) on this site:

Suggestions welcome, bearing in mind we are print editors, without web expertise, with limited time. Tech-savvy volunteers always welcome, especially anyone knowing about databases! For example, our Articles Index is a simple list, & would be better as a spreadsheet, & ideally a database.

Ideally, we'd like a volunteer web editor to run this site, whilst we concentrate on print editing and producing the magazine.

Donations

A non-profit group, our folk magazines promoting folk music and folk traditions run at a healthy loss.

Additionally, we maintain this website for you ~ free-to-read, plus extensive resources.
So if you find this free website useful . . . you may wish to donate say just £3 as a 1-off, or once a year.

For card donations, just click this link: Donations by card Thank you!

Or ⎯ you're welcome to subscribe: details foot of page (UK BACS or cheque; or world-wide by card).