Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth Century

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Paul Watt, Derek B. Scott, Patrick Spedding
Cambridge University Press, Mar 23, 2017 - Art - 250 pages
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

American Secular Songsters in the Nineteenth
11
The Law Aesthetics
32
The Genesis of Thomas Moores Irish Melodies 18081834 47
47
The US Presidential Campaign Songster 18401900 73
73
Friendship Cosmopolitan Connections and Late
91
The Political Uses of God Save
112
Politics on
138
Rethinking the Songster and NationalCosmopolitan
161
The Blackface Songster in Britain 184
184
The Case
205
Australian Songsters and the Australian Folk
223
Index 242
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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.