Overview

This collection situates the North-East within a developing nationwide account of British musical culture. Music in North-East England provides a wide-ranging exploration of musical life in the North-East of England during the early modern period. It contributes to a growing number of studies concerned with developing a nationwide account of British musical culture. By defining the North-East in its widest sense, the collection illuminates localised differences, distinct musical cultures in urban centres and rural locations, as well as region-wide networks, and situates regional musical life in broader national and international contexts. Music in North-East England affords new insights into aspects of musical life that have been the focus of previous studies of British musical life - such as public concerts - but also draws attention to aspects that have attracted less scholarly attention in histories of early modern British musical culture: the musical activities and tastes of non-elite consumers; interactions between art music and cheap print and popular song; music education beyond London and its satellite environs; the recovery of northern urban soundscapes; and the careers of professional musicians who have not previously been the focus of major published musicological studies.

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A refreshing aspect of this study is the presentation of these centres of musical activity in their local and regional context, rather than through their relationship with London, and the exploration of musical transmission which bypassed the capital altogether. . . . As a study of music in the region the volume reflects the diversity and history of the subject while leaving the reader hungry for more, and provides a worthy model for studies of music in other parts of England. -- Katherine Hogg * Northern History *

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Dr STEPHANIE CARTER is a Research Associate on 'Music, Heritage, Place: Unlocking the Musical Collections of England's County Records Offices', an AHRC-funded collaborative project between Royal Holloway, University of London, and Newcastle University. Her research focuses on musical culture in early modern England, particularly around music ownership, circulation and trade. She is also Archivist/Librarian at Carlisle Cathedral. KIRSTEN GIBSON is Senior Lecturer and Head of Music at Newcastle University. ROZ SOUTHEY is a music historian and novelist. BARBARA CROSBIE is Assistant Professor in Early Modern Social History at Durham University and co-edited (with Adrian Green) Economy and Culture in North-East England, 1500-1800 (Boydell Press, 2018). KIRSTEN GIBSON is Senior Lecturer and Head of Music at Newcastle University. ROZ SOUTHEY is a music historian and novelist. Dr SIMON D.I. FLEMING is a Durham-based musicologist with an interest in eighteenth-century British music. He worked extensively with subscribers' lists which led to the formation of the Dataset of Subscribers (https://musicsubscribers.co.uk/) and the joint editing of a multi-author book, Music by Subscription: Composers and Their Networks in the British Music-Publishing Trade, 1676-1820 (2022). Dr STEPHANIE CARTER is a Research Associate on 'Music, Heritage, Place: Unlocking the Musical Collections of England's County Records Offices', an AHRC-funded collaborative project between Royal Holloway, University of London, and Newcastle University. Her research focuses on musical culture in early modern England, particularly around music ownership, circulation and trade. She is also Archivist/Librarian at Carlisle Cathedral.

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