The Dark Counterculture of British Folk Tradition
Автор: Bureau of Lost Culture
Загружено: 2025-09-16
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In the old towns and villages of Britain, before the police, before the tabloids, before social media shame-storms, there were other ways to deal with those who stepped outside the rules. Noisy ways. Cruel ways. Dangerous ways - the 'Rough Music' rituals — part punishment, part performance, part pagan magic — at the dark edge where community, cruelty and celebration collide.
Liz Williams, the Glastonbury-based author, folklorist and pagan, came to the Bureau to talk about them. Her latest book Rough Music: Folk Tradition, Transgression and Alternative Britain, (https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/roug...) explores often violent, forgotten traditions of noise, mockery, and ritual humiliation — and how they ripple forward into today’s counterculture, protest movements, and online doxing.
And we hear about some other, less cruel, but deeply strange British rituals that cling on: the annual Cheese-Rolling at Cooper’s Hill, The Burryman’s Parade in Scotland and the yearly Shin Kicking competition in the Cotswolds..
#folklore #tradition #albion #cruelty #shaming #doxing #skimmington #roughmusic #counterculture
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