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The Singing Bourgeois - Songs of the Victorian Drawing Room and Parlour (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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The Singing Bourgeois - Songs of the Victorian Drawing Room and Parlour (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Series: Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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First published in 1989, The Singing Bourgeois challenges the myth
that the 'Victorian parlour song' was a clear-cut genre. Derek
Scott reveals the huge diversity of musical forms and styles that
influenced the songs performed in middle class homes during the
nineteenth century, from the assimilation of Celtic and
Afro-American culture by songwriters, to the emergence of forms of
sacred song performed in the home. The popularity of these domestic
songs opened up opportunities to women composers, and a chapter of
the book is dedicated to the discussion of women songwriters and
their work. The commercial success of bourgeois song through the
sale of sheet music demonstrated how music might be incorporated
into a system of capitalist enterprise. Scott examines the early
amateur music market and its evolution into an increasingly
professionalized activity towards the end of the century. This new
updated edition features an additional chapter which provides a
broad survey of music and class in London, drawing on sources that
have appeared since the book's first publication. An overview of
recent research is also given in a section of additional notes. The
new bibliography of nineteenth-century British and American popular
song is the most comprehensive of its kind and includes information
on twentieth-century collections of songs, relevant periodicals,
catalogues, dictionaries and indexes, as well as useful databases
and internet sites. The book also features accompanying
downloadable resources of songs from the period.
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