Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth Century
Synopsis
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.
- Copyright:
- 2017 Paul Watt, Derek B. Scott and Patrick Spedding
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- ISBN-13:
- 9781108161268
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 2017-04-04T05:14:02Z
- Language:
- English
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- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.