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Explores the breadth, diversity and significance of the commercial music trade and its communities across Britain during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Adding to the existing scholarship on music publishers and instrument makers, mostly based in London and the university cities, the collection challenges this historiography by offering the first collective narrative for the commercial trade in musical goods and services - including the printing, publishing and sale of printed music, the sale of manuscript music, musical instruments and related wares, and the tuning and general maintenance of musical instruments such as organs and pianos. Contributions draw on evidence from across the country of the trade's activities, networks and communities, and recognize the significance of small cities, market towns and regional hubs in cultural dissemination. The Music Trade in Regional Britain therefore contributes to a growing body of work offering a nationwide account of musical culture. It foregrounds a trade that was far more geographically dispersed, economically significant and culturally broad than has previously been acknowledged. CONTRIBUTORS: Stephanie Carter, Simon D.I. Fleming, David Griffiths, Nancy A. Mace, Martin Perkins, Christopher Roberts, Roz Southey, Matthew Spring, Robert Thompson

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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. 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). ROZ SOUTHEY is a music historian and novelist.

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