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The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London (Hardcover)
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The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London (Hardcover)
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For three centuries, ballad-singers thrived at the heart of life in
London. One of history's great paradoxes, they were routinely
disparaged and persecuted, living on the margins, yet playing a
central part in the social, cultural, and political life of the
nation. This history spans the Georgian heyday and Victorian
decline of those who sang in the city streets in order to sell
printed songs. Focusing on the people who plied this musical trade,
Oskar Cox Jensen interrogates their craft and their repertoire, the
challenges they faced and the great changes in which they were
caught up. From orphans to veterans, prostitutes to preachers,
ballad-singers sang of love and loss, the soil and the sea,
mediating the events of the day to an audience of hundreds of
thousands. Complemented by sixty-two recorded songs, this study
demonstrates how ballad-singers are figures of central importance
in the cultural, social, and political processes of continuity,
contestation, and change across the nineteenth-century world.
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