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Cheap print and popular song in the nineteenth century : a cultural history of the songster / edited by Paul Watt, Derek B. Scott and Patrick Spedding.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Songsters--History and criticism.
- Songsters.
- Popular music--Social aspects--History--19th century.
- Popular music.
- Popular music--Political aspects--History--19th century.
- Popular music--To 1901--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 250 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- This book is a cultural history of the nineteenth-century songster: pocket-sized anthologies of song texts, usually without musical notation. It examines the musical, social, commercial and aesthetic functions songsters served and the processes by which they were produced and disseminated, the repertory they included, and the singers, printers and entrepreneurs that both inspired their manufacture and facilitated their consumption. Taking an international perspective, chapters focus on songsters from Ireland, North America, Australia and Britain and the varied public and private contexts in which they were used and exploited in oral and print cultures.
- Contents:
- The nineteenth-century songster : recovering a lost musical artefact / Paul Watt, Derek B. Scott and Patrick Spedding
- American secular songsters in the nineteenth century : an overview / Norm Cohen
- The prefaces to songsters : the law, aesthetics, performers and their reputations / Paul Watt
- The genesis of Thomas Moore's Irish melodies, 1808-1834 / Sarah McCleave
- The US presidential campaign songster, 1840-1900 / Derek B. Scott
- Friendship, cosmopolitan connections and late Victorian socialist songbook culture / Kate Bowan
- "Confound their politics" : the political uses of "God save the king-queen" / Paul Pickering
- Charles Robert Thatcher's songsters : politics on the goldfields of Victoria, Australia / Mark Pinner
- Rethinking the songster and national-cosmopolitan identity in Lowland Scotland, c. 1787-1830 / Andrew Greenwood
- The blackface songster in Britain / Michael Pickering
- Popular songsters and the British military : the case of "The girl I left behind me" / Anthea Skinner
- Australian songsters and the Australian folk song movement / Graeme Smith.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Apr 2017).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-108-16238-X
- 1-108-16126-X
- 1-108-16222-3
- 1-108-16254-1
- 1-108-16334-3
- 1-108-16270-3
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