Title The ballad-singer in Georgian and Victorian London / Oskar Cox Jensen

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations Contents Introduction -- Representations : Seeing the Singer -- Interlude I. 'Oh! Cruel' -- Progress : Ancient Custom in the Modern City -- Interlude II. 'Lord Viscount Maidstone's Address' -- Performance : The Singer in Action -- Interlude III. 'The Storm' -- Repertoire : Navigating the Mainstream -- Interlude IV. 'Old Dog Tray' -- Conclusion Summary "In this book, I seek to write the history of the ballad-singer: a central agent in numerous cultural, social, and political processes of continuity, contestation, and change across western Europe between the later sixteenth and the late nineteenth centuries. The English term 'ballad-singer' appears to have been an invention of the 1590s, and in the Victorian period it began to lose coherence among a raft of alternatives, all of which denoted something slightly different: chaunter, patterer, long-song seller, street vocalist, busker. For the three centuries in between, however, its usage remained remarkably consistent, referring to a low status and low income individual of questionable legality, whose primary occupation was the dissemination of printed songs, generally by direct sale for small change, in public places, primarily the street, and who sang these songs as part of the process. In the period under discussion in these pages, ballad-singers' songs' musical notation was almost never printed, the words being set instead as verse (often accompanied by image), leaving the onus upon the seller to supply - and sometimes even to choose - the tune"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Music -- Social aspects -- England -- London -- History Singers -- England -- London -- History Street music -- England -- London -- History and criticism Dissemination of music -- History Ballads, English Civilization Singers England -- London Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book LC no. 2021024945 ISBN 9781108908108 1108908101 9781108903899 1108903894

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