The Ballad Singer in Georgian and Victorian London Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 23,5 Mb
• Release Date : 18 February 2021

An in-depth study of the nineteenth-century London ballad-singer, a central figure in British cultural, social and political life.

• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
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• Release Date : 18 November 2022

Opera Outside the Box: Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain addresses operatic “experiences” outside the opera houses of Britain during the nineteenth century. The essays adopt a variety of perspectives

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 05 July 2022

Across Europe, from the dawn of print until the early twentieth century, the news of crime and criminals' public executions was printed in song form on cheap broadsides and pamphlets

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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• Release Date : 16 November 2023

This volume brings together new approaches to music history to reveal the interdependence of music and religion in nineteenth-century culture. As composers and performers drew inspiration from the Bible and

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 31 August 2023

A captivating exploration of the newly reimagined world of sound and sense in Britain in the decades around 1800.

• Publisher : Open Book Publishers
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• Release Date : 04 September 2023

This deeply researched collection offers a comprehensive introduction to the eighteenth-century trade in street literature – ballads, chapbooks, and popular prints – in England and Scotland. Offering detailed studies of a selection

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• File Size : 37,6 Mb
• Release Date : 14 December 2023

From its origin as the Roman city of Londinium through to its latest incarnation as a super-diverse World City in the twenty-first century, London's history and culture has been shaped

• Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
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• Release Date : 02 June 2024

This collection situates the North-East within a developing nationwide account of British musical culture.

• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• File Size : 48,6 Mb
• Release Date : 15 July 2023

The Child Ballads are a series of over 300 traditional ballads from England and Scotland that, along with their American variants, were anthologized by folklorist Francis James Child in the nineteenth

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 05 July 2017

First published in 1989, The Singing Bourgeois challenges the myth that the 'Victorian parlour song' was a clear-cut genre. Derek Scott reveals the huge diversity of musical forms and styles that