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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introducing Mr. Dibdin / Ian Newman, Oskar Cox Jensen, David Kennerley -- Part I. Dibdin in context. "Mungo here, Mungo there" : Charles Dibdin and racial preference / Felicity Nussbaum ; Dibdin at the Royal Circus / Michael Burden ; Interlude 1 : Dibdin and Robert Bloomfield : Voicing the clown in town / Katie Osborn ; The detail is in The devil : Dibdin's patriotism in the 1780s / David L'Shaughnessy ; Loyalism, celebrity, and the politics of personality : Dibdin in the 1790s / David Kennerley ; Dibdin and the dilettantes / Judith Hawley ; Interlude 2 : Dibdin and Jane Austen : Musical cultures of gentry women / Nicola Tritchard-Pink -- Part II. Songs in focus. "True courage" : a song in history / Oskar Cox Jensen ; A motley assembly : "The Margate hoy" / Harriet Guest ; Interlude 3 : Dibdin and John Raphael Smith : Print culture and fine art / Nicholas Grindle -- Part III. Nineteenth-century transitions. The changing theatrical economy : Charles Dibdin the Younger at Sadler's Wells, 1814-19 / Susan Valladares ; Writing for actors : the dramas of Thomas Dibdin / Jim Davis ; "Each song was just like a little sermon" : Dibdin's Victorian afterlives / Isaac Land ; Afterword : Dibdin's miscellany / Mark Philip |
| Summary |
Charles Dibdin (1745-1814) was one of the most popular and influential creative forces in late Georgian Britain, producing a diversity of works that defy simple categorisation. He was an actor, lyricist, composer, singer-songwriter, comedian, theatre-manager, journalist, artist, music tutor, speculator, and author of novels, historical works, polemical pamphlets, and guides to musical education. This collection of essays illuminates the social and cultural conditions that made such a varied career possible, offering fresh insights into previously unexplored aspects of late Georgian culture, society, and politics. Tracing the transitions in the cultural economy from an eighteenth-century system of miscellany to a nineteenth-century regime of specialisation, Charles Dibdin and Late Georgian Culture illustrates the variety of Dibdin's cultural output as characteristic of late eighteenth-century entertainment, while also addressing the challenge mounted by a growing preoccupation with specialisation in the early nineteenth century. The chapters, written by some of the leading experts in their individual disciplines, examine Dibdin's extraordinarily wide-ranging career, spanning cultural spaces from the theatres at Drury Lane and Covent Garden, through Ranelagh Gardens, Sadler's Wells, and the Royal Circus, to singing on board ships and in elegant Regency parlours; from broadside ballads and graphic satires, to newspaper journalism, mezzotint etchings, painting, and decorative pottery. Together they demonstrate connections between forms of cultural production that have often been treated as distinct, and provide a model for a more integrated approach to the fabric of late Georgian cultural production |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 24, 2018) |
| Subject |
Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814. fast (OCoLC)fst00108877 |
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Composers -- Great Britain
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
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Composers.
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Great Britain.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cox Jensen, Oskar, 1988- editor.
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Kennerley, David, 1988- editor.
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Newman, Ian David, 1976- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780192540454 |
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0192540459 |
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9780191853593 |
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0191853593 |
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