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The ballad-singer in Georgian and Victorian London / Oskar Cox Jensen.

By: Cox Jensen, Oskar, 1988- [author.]Description: xvii, 280 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cmISBN: 9781108830560; 1108830560Subject(s): Music -- Social aspects -- England -- London -- History | Singers -- England -- London -- History | Street music -- England -- London -- History and criticism | Dissemination of music -- History | Ballads, English | Street music | Street musicians | England -- LondonGenre/Form: Criticism, interpretation, etc. | History.Additional physical formats: Online version:: Ballad-singer in Georgian and Victorian LondonDDC classification: 782.4209421 LOC classification: ML3917.G7 | C68 2021Also issued online.

Contents:

Introduction -- Representations : Seeing the singer -- Interlude I. 'Oh! Cruel' -- Progress : Ancient custom in the modern dity -- Interlude II. 'Lord Viscount Maidstone's address' -- Performance : The singer in action -- Interlude III. 'The storm' -- Repertoire : Navigating the mainstream -- Interlude IV. 'Old Dog Tray' -- Conclusion.

Summary: "In this book, I seek to write the history of the ballad-singer: a central agent in numerous cultural, social, and political processes of continuity, contestation, and change across western Europe between the later sixteenth and the late nineteenth centuries. The English term 'ballad-singer' appears to have been an invention of the 1590s, and in the Victorian period it began to lose coherence among a raft of alternatives, all of which denoted something slightly different: chaunter, patterer, long-song seller, street vocalist, busker. For the three centuries in between, however, its usage remained remarkably consistent, referring to a low status and low income individual of questionable legality, whose primary occupation was the dissemination of printed songs, generally by direct sale for small change, in public places, primarily the street, and who sang these songs as part of the process. In the period under discussion in these pages, ballad-singers' songs' musical notation was almost never printed, the words being set instead as verse (often accompanied by image), leaving the onus upon the seller to supply - and sometimes even to choose - the tune"--

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Item type	Current library	Class number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item reservations
Book-Circulating	Fischer Hall Library Main shelves	ML3917. G7C68 2021 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Donated by Prof Newman, Fall 2022		B014679

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Formerly CIP. Uk

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-274) and index.

"In this book, I seek to write the history of the ballad-singer: a central agent in numerous cultural, social, and political processes of continuity, contestation, and change across western Europe between the later sixteenth and the late nineteenth centuries. The English term 'ballad-singer' appears to have been an invention of the 1590s, and in the Victorian period it began to lose coherence among a raft of alternatives, all of which denoted something slightly different: chaunter, patterer, long-song seller, street vocalist, busker. For the three centuries in between, however, its usage remained remarkably consistent, referring to a low status and low income individual of questionable legality, whose primary occupation was the dissemination of printed songs, generally by direct sale for small change, in public places, primarily the street, and who sang these songs as part of the process. In the period under discussion in these pages, ballad-singers' songs' musical notation was almost never printed, the words being set instead as verse (often accompanied by image), leaving the onus upon the seller to supply - and sometimes even to choose - the tune"--

Also issued online.