Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth Century: A Cultural History of th

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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.

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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.

Author Biography

Paul Watt is a senior lecturer in musicology at Monash University, Victoria. His previous books include Bawdy Songbooks of the Romantic Period (edited with Patrick Spedding, 2011) and Joseph Holbrooke: Composer, Critic, and Musical Patriot (edited with Anne-Marie Forbes, 2015). His articles have been published in the Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, Music and Letters and Musicology Australia. With funding from the Australian Research Council, he is writing a critical biography of Ernest Newman and a history of the reform and regulation of music criticism in late nineteenth-century England. Derek B. Scott is Professor of Critical Musicology at the University of Leeds. His books include From the Erotic to the Demonic (2003), Sounds of the Metropolis (2008), and Musical Style and Social Meaning (2010). Since March 2014, with the aid of a major award from the European Research Council, he has been researching the reception of twentieth-century German operetta in London and New York. Patrick Spedding is a lecturer in literary studies and Associate Director of the Centre for the Book at Monash University, Victoria. His current research is divided between the publication and reception of Eliza Haywood's works and the authorship and publication of eighteenth-century erotica, the subject of his Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship. His articles have been published in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Studies in Philology, Book History and The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America.

Table of Contents

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.

Review

'No doubt a range of interdisciplinary scholars - such as those grounded in English, popular culture, music, American studies, media studies, and more - will be interested in this volume's focus on the nineteenth century, culture, production, and politics.' Scott Gac, Journal of Popular Music Studies'There is an abundance of positive thought and information in the book. Every chapter is of interest and leaves one wanting more.' Stephen Banfield, Popular Music'…excellent, helpful, informative, and interesting' Ian Newman, Music & Letters

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This is the first book to detail the musical and cultural significance of the songster.

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... excellent, helpful, informative, and interesting' Ian Newman, Music & Letters

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This is the first book to detail the musical and cultural significance of the songster.

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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.

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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.

Details ISBN131661252X Pages 264 Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 2020 ISBN-10 131661252X ISBN-13 9781316612521 Format Paperback Publication Date 2020-05-07 Imprint Cambridge University Press Subtitle A Cultural History of the Songster Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Patrick Spedding Affiliation Monash University, Victoria Short Title Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth Century Language English UK Release Date 2020-05-07 AU Release Date 2020-05-07 NZ Release Date 2020-05-07 Illustrations 19 Line drawings, black and white Author Patrick Spedding Alternative 9781107159914 DEWEY 782.4216409034 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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