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Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London by Oskar Cox Jensen (2021, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-101108830560
ISBN-139781108830560
eBay Product ID (ePID)20050089034
Product Key Features
Number of Pages340 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameBallad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London
Publication Year2021
SubjectHistory & Criticism, Europe / Great Britain / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaMusic, History
AuthorOskar Cox Jensen
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight20.2 Oz
Item Length5.9 in
Item Width9.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2021-024944
TitleLeadingThe
Reviews'There are many books about the British ballad, but this one is different. It's about the men, women and children whose voices made ballads happen. Often despised, frequently ridiculed, these hardy performers now have a champion in Oskar Cox Jensen. He has revealed a human story that is both richly researched and deeply moving.' Roger Parker, King's College London
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal781.53209421
Table Of ContentList of Figures; List of Musical Examples; List of Recordings; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Note on the Text; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Representations: Seeing the Singer; Interlude I. 'Oh! Cruel'; 2. Progress: Ancient Custom in the Modern City; Interlude II. 'Lord Viscount Maidstone's Address'; 3. Performance: The Singer in Action; Interlude III. 'The Storm'; 4. Repertoire: Navigating the Mainstream; Interlude IV. 'Old Dog Tray'; Conclusion; Bibliography.
SynopsisFor three centuries, ballad-singers thrived at the heart of life in London. One of history's great paradoxes, they were routinely disparaged and persecuted, living on the margins, yet playing a central part in the social, cultural, and political life of the nation. This history spans the Georgian heyday and Victorian decline of those who sang in the city streets in order to sell printed songs. Focusing on the people who plied this musical trade, Oskar Cox Jensen interrogates their craft and their repertoire, the challenges they faced and the great changes in which they were caught up. From orphans to veterans, prostitutes to preachers, ballad-singers sang of love and loss, the soil and the sea, mediating the events of the day to an audience of hundreds of thousands. Complemented by sixty-two recorded songs, this study demonstrates how ballad-singers are figures of central importance in the cultural, social, and political processes of continuity, contestation, and change across the nineteenth-century world., Ballad-singers were central to the cultural, social and political life of Britain for three centuries. Focusing on those who plied this musical trade, and complemented by recordings of over sixty songs, this engaging study offers the first in-depth history of the London ballad-singer during the period of their heyday and decline.
LC Classification NumberML3652.8
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