Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Paul Watt (Monash University, Victoria) ,
Derek B. Scott (University of Leeds) ,
Patrick Spedding (Monash University, Victoria)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 17.00cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 0.500kg
ISBN: 9781316612521
ISBN 10: 131661252
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 07 May 2020
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
'No doubt a range of interdisciplinary scholars - such as those grounded in English, popular culture, music, American studies, media studies, and more - will be interested in this volume's focus on the nineteenth century, culture, production, and politics.' Scott Gac, Journal of Popular Music Studies 'There is an abundance of positive thought and information in the book. Every chapter is of interest and leaves one wanting more.' Stephen Banfield, Popular Music '...excellent, helpful, informative, and interesting' Ian Newman, Music & Letters
'No doubt a range of interdisciplinary scholars - such as those grounded in English, popular culture, music, American studies, media studies, and more - will be interested in this volume's focus on the nineteenth century, culture, production, and politics.' Scott Gac, Journal of Popular Music Studies 'There is an abundance of positive thought and information in the book. Every chapter is of interest and leaves one wanting more.' Stephen Banfield, Popular Music '...excellent, helpful, informative, and interesting' Ian Newman, Music & Letters 'No doubt a range of interdisciplinary scholars - such as those grounded in English, popular culture, music, American studies, media studies, and more - will be interested in this volume's focus on the nineteenth century, culture, production, and politics.' Scott Gac, Journal of Popular Music Studies 'There is an abundance of positive thought and information in the book. Every chapter is of interest and leaves one wanting more.' Stephen Banfield, Popular Music ... excellent, helpful, informative, and interesting' Ian Newman, Music & Letters
'No doubt a range of interdisciplinary scholars - such as those grounded in English, popular culture, music, American studies, media studies, and more - will be interested in this volume's focus on the nineteenth century, culture, production, and politics.' Scott Gac, Journal of Popular Music Studies 'There is an abundance of positive thought and information in the book. Every chapter is of interest and leaves one wanting more.' Stephen Banfield, Popular Music '…excellent, helpful, informative, and interesting' Ian Newman, Music & Letters
Author Information
Paul Watt is a senior lecturer in musicology at Monash University, Victoria. His previous books include Bawdy Songbooks of the Romantic Period (edited with Patrick Spedding, 2011) and Joseph Holbrooke: Composer, Critic, and Musical Patriot (edited with Anne-Marie Forbes, 2015). His articles have been published in the Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, Music and Letters and Musicology Australia. With funding from the Australian Research Council, he is writing a critical biography of Ernest Newman and a history of the reform and regulation of music criticism in late nineteenth-century England. 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.
