The Transformed Village: Lucy Broad Wood and Folksong

Abstract

Abstract In his 1999 series of Reith Lectures on globalization, the sociologist Anthony Giddens reforred briefly to ‘invented tradition’. The term has gained currency since the publication in 1983 of a collction of essays entitled The Invention of Tradition, edited by Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, in which various writers argue that accepted ‘traditions’ such as the Scottish kilt and rituals associated with the British monarchy are largely inventions of the nineteenth century.’ Giddens went further, claiming that all traditions are invented traditions.