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Cheap print and popular song in the nineteenth century : a cultural history of the songster / edited by Paul Watt, Derek B. Scott and Patrick Spedding.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.Description: 250 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781107159914
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23
Contents:
The nineteenth century songster: recovering a lost musical artefact / Paul Watt, Derek B. Scott, Patrick Spedding -- American secular songsters in the nineteenth century: an overview / Norm Cohen -- The prefaces to songsters: the law, aesthetics, performers and their reputations / Paul Watt -- The genesis of Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies, 1808-1834 / Sarah McCleave -- The US presidential campaign songster, 1840-1900 / Derek B. Scott -- Friendship, cosmopolitan connections and late Victorian socialist songbook culture / Kate Bowan -- 'Confound their politics': the political uses of 'God save the king-queen' / Paul Pickering -- Charles Robert Thatcher's songsters: politics on the goldfields of Victoria, Australia / Mark Pinner -- Rethinking the songster and national-cosmopolitan identity in lowland Scotland, c. 1787-1830 / Andrew Greenwood -- The blackface songster in Britain / Michael Pickering -- Popular songsters and the British military: the case of 'The girl I left behind me' / Anthea Skinner -- Australian songsters and the Australian folk song movement / Graeme Smith.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The nineteenth century songster: recovering a lost musical artefact / Paul Watt, Derek B. Scott, Patrick Spedding -- American secular songsters in the nineteenth century: an overview / Norm Cohen -- The prefaces to songsters: the law, aesthetics, performers and their reputations / Paul Watt -- The genesis of Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies, 1808-1834 / Sarah McCleave -- The US presidential campaign songster, 1840-1900 / Derek B. Scott -- Friendship, cosmopolitan connections and late Victorian socialist songbook culture / Kate Bowan -- 'Confound their politics': the political uses of 'God save the king-queen' / Paul Pickering -- Charles Robert Thatcher's songsters: politics on the goldfields of Victoria, Australia / Mark Pinner -- Rethinking the songster and national-cosmopolitan identity in lowland Scotland, c. 1787-1830 / Andrew Greenwood -- The blackface songster in Britain / Michael Pickering -- Popular songsters and the British military: the case of 'The girl I left behind me' / Anthea Skinner -- Australian songsters and the Australian folk song movement / Graeme Smith.

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