For anyone interested to read more in this area of research here are some books, journals, articles and websites that I have found helpful. If you know of something not listed here that I might find useful, please email me and let me know.

Argyle, M. (1996). The Social Psychology of Leisure. London, Penguin.

Atkinson, D. (2004). "Folk Songs in Print: Text and tradition." Folk Music Journal 8(4): 456-483.

Bailey, B. A. and J. W. Davidson (2005). "Effects of group singing and performance for marginalised and middle-class singers." Psychology of Music 33(3).

Barz, G. F. and T. J. Cooley, Eds. (1997). Shaddows in the Field: New perspectives for fieldwork in ethnomusicology. New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Bohlman, P. (1988). The Study of Folk Music in the Modern World. Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press.

Boyes, G. (1983). The Imagined Village: Culture, Ideology and the English Folk Revival. Manchester, Manchester University Press.

Brocken, M. (2003). The British Folk Revival 1944-2002. Aldershot, Ashgate.

Brown, M. E. and P. S. Smith (1982). Ballad and Folksong. Sheffield, University of Sheffield.

Clarke, E. and N. Cook, Eds. (2004). Empirical Musicology: aims, methods, prospects. Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Clayton, M., Herbert, T. and Middleton, R. Eds. (2003). The Cultural Study of Music. London, Routledge.

Cope, P. and H. Smith (1997). "Cultural context in Musical Instrument Learning." British Journal of Music Education 14: 283-289.

DeNora, T. (2000). Music in Everyday Life. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Durrant, C. and E. Himonides (1998). "What makes people sing together? Sociopsychological and cross-cultural perspectives on the choral phenomenon." International Journal of Music Education 32: 61-70.

Everitt, A. (1997). Joining In: An investigation into participatory music. London, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

Finnegan, R. (1989). The Hidden Musicians: Music-making in an English Town. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Garnett, L. (2005). The British Barbershopper: A study in socio-musical values. Aldershot, Ashgate.

Hargreaves, D. J. and A. C. North, Eds. (1997). Social Psychology of Music. Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Harker, D. (1985). Fakesong: The manufacture of British 'folksong' 1700 to the present day. Milton Keynes, Open University Press.

Hobsbawm, E. and T. Ranger (1983). The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Keil, C. (1998). "Applied Sociomusicology and Performance Studies." Ethnomusicology 42(2): 303-312.

MacKinnon, N. (1993). The British Folk Scene: Musical performance and social identity. Buckingham, Open University Press.

Merriam, A. P. (1964). The Anthropology of Music. Evanston, Illinois, Northwestern University Press.

Middleton, R. (1990). Studying Popular Music. Milton Keynes, Open University Press.

Nettl, B. (2005). The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-one issues and concepts. Urbana, University of Illinois Press.

Nettl, B. and P. Bohlman, Eds. (1991). Comparitive Musicology and Anthropology of Music: Essays on the history of ethnomusicology. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

O'Dea, P., Ed. (2005). Singing for Success: A guide to setting up singing groups. London, Aldgate Press.

Pickering, M. (1990). "Recent Folk Music Scholarship in England: A critique." Folk Music Journal 6: 37-64.

Pickering, M. and T. Green, Eds. (1987). Everyday Culture: Popular song and the vernacular milieu. Milton Keynes, Open Universty Press.

Pitts, S. (2005). Valuing Musical Participation. Aldershot, Ashgate.

Rosenburg, N. V., Ed. (1993). Transforming Tradition: Folk music revivals examined. Urbana and Chicago, University of Illinois Press.

Russell, I., Ed. (1986). Singer Song and Scholar. Sheffield, Sheffield University Press.

Russell, I. (2003). "The Singer's the Thing: The individual and group identity in a Pennine singing tradition." Folk Music Journal 8(3): 266-281.

Russell, I. (2004). "Sacred and Secular: Identity, style, and performance in two singing traditions from the Pennines." The World of Music 46(1): 11-40.

Russell, I. (2006). "Working With Tradition: Towards a partnership model of fieldwork." Folklore 117(April): 15-32.

Russell, I. and D. Atkinson, Eds. (2004). Folksong: Tradition, Revival, and Re-Creation. Aberdeen, The Elphinstone Institute University of Aberdeen.

Sheehy, D. (1992). "A Few notions about Philosophy and Strategy in Applied Ethnomusicology." Ethnomusicology 36(3): 323-336.

Small, C. (1998). Musicing: The meanings of performing and listeneing. Midletown, Connecticut, Westeyan University Press.

Stebbins, R. A. (1976). "Music among Friends: The social networks of amateur musicians." International Review of Sociology 12: 52-73.

Stebbins, R. A. (1992). Amateurs, Professionals, and Serious Leisure. Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press.

Stebbins, R. A. (1992). "Costs and Rewards in Barbershop Singing." Leisure Studies 11(2): 123-133.

Stock, J. P. J. (2004). "Ordering performance, leading people:Structuring an English folk music session." The World of Music 46(1): 41-70.

Stokes, M. (1994). Ethnicity, Identity and Music: The musical construction of place. Oxford, Berg.

Widdowson, J. (1997). "Backwards to the future? English folklore studies in the twenty-first century." Lore and Language 15(1-2): 181-190.