Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth Century - A Cultural History of the Songster

Klappentext This is the first book to detail the musical and cultural significance of the songster. Zusammenfassung This book is essential reading for scholars and students who want to understand how songs functioned! were consumed and transmitted around the world from around 1790 to 1910. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The nineteenth-century songster: recovering a lost musical artefact Paul Watt, Derek B. Scott and Patrick Spedding; Part I. Production, Function and Commerce: 2. American secular songsters in the nineteenth century: an overview Norm Cohen; 3. The prefaces to songsters: the law, aesthetics, performers and performance Paul Watt; 4. The genesis of Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies, 1808-34 Sarah McCleave; Part II. Politics: 5. The US Presidential campaign songster, 1840-1900 Derek B. Scott; 6. Friendship, cosmopolitan connections and late Victorian socialist songbook culture Kate Bowan; 7. 'Confound their politics': the political uses of God Save the King-Queen Paul Pickering; 8. Charles Robert Thatcher's songsters: politics on the goldfields of Victoria, Australia Mark Pinner; Part III. Nation, Place and Purpose: 9. Rethinking the songster and national-cosmopolitan identity in Lowland Scotland, c.1787-1830 Andrew Greenwood; 10. The blackface songster in Britain Michael Pickering; 11. Popular songsters and the British military: the case of The Girl I Left Behind Me Anthea Skinner; 12. Australian songsters and the Australian folk song movement Graeme Smith.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Paul Watt, Paul (Monash University Watt, Paul Spedding Watt
• Collaboration: Derek B Scott (Editeur), Derek B. Scott (Editeur), Derek B. (University of Leeds) Scott (Editeur), Patrick Spedding (Editeur), Patrick (Monash University Spedding (Editeur), Spedding Patrick (Editeur), Paul Watt (Editeur), Paul (Monash University Watt (Editeur), Watt Paul (Editeur)
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 23.03.2017
• EAN: 9781107159914
• ISBN: 978-1-107-15991-4
• Pages: 264
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Art > Théâtre, ballet; MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Social and cultural history, Theory of music & musicology, Theory of music and musicology