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The ballad-singer in Georgian and Victorian London
- Title
- The ballad-singer in Georgian and Victorian London / Oskar Cox Jensen.
- Author
- Cox Jensen, Oskar, 1988-
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- ©2021
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- Description
- xvii, 280 pages : illustrations, music; 24 cm
- Summary
- For three centuries, ballad-singers thrived at the heart of life in London. One of history's great paradoxes, they were routinely disparaged and persecuted, living on the margins, yet playing a central part in the social, cultural, and political life of the nation. This history spans the Georgian heyday and Victorian decline of those who sang in the city streets in order to sell printed songs. Focusing on the people who plied this musical trade, Oskar Cox Jensen interrogates their craft and their repertoire, the challenges they faced and the great changes in which they were caught up. From orphans to veterans, prostitutes to preachers, ballad-singers sang of love and loss, the soil and the sea, mediating the events of the day to an audience of hundreds of thousands. Complemented by sixty-two recorded songs, this study demonstrates how ballad-singers are figures of central importance in the cultural, social, and political processes of continuity, contestation, and change across the nineteenth-century world.
- Subject
- 1700-1899
- Street music > England > London > History > 18th century
- Street music > England > London > History > 19th century
- Street musicians > England > London > History > 18th century
- Street musicians > England > London > History > 19th century
- Ballads, English > England > London > History and criticism
- Ballads, English
- Street music
- Street musicians
- England > London
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-274) and index.
- Call Number
- JME 21-225
- ISBN
- 9781108830560
- 1108830560
- OCLC
- 1194962380
- Author
- Cox Jensen, Oskar, 1988- author.
- Title
- The ballad-singer in Georgian and Victorian London / Oskar Cox Jensen.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-274) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1700-1899
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781108903899
- Research Call Number
- JME 21-225