Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth CenturyPaul Watt, Derek B. Scott, Patrick Spedding 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 |
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Allan Ramsay American Anderson Ballads blackface blackface songster Britain Cambridge University Press campaign songs Campaign Songster Carpenter’s Chants of Labour chapter Charles Charlwood Chartists Colonial Songster contained copies Copyright cosmopolitan cultural David David Finkelstein Dublin early Edinburgh edition English engraved example folk music folk song George Thomson Girl I Left goldfields Hymn Ibid included Irish Melodies issued James Power John Joynes Lesbia Letters of Thomas Library London Lowens Manchester Melbourne military minstrel songs minstrelsy monarch Moore’s National Anthem nineteenth century oral original Oxford University Press Paul Pickering performed poem political Popular Music popular songs prefaces printed printers publication published Queen’s University radical reference Republican Robert Roud Routledge Save the Queen Scheu Scotland Scottish Scottish Enlightenment sheet music singers singing social Socialist Songs song’s songbooks songsters sung Sydney Thatcher Thatcher’s Colonial Minstrel Thomas Moore tradition tune verse Victoria Songster William Morris York