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The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London (Paperback) Loot Price: R777
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The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London (Paperback): Oskar Cox Jensen

The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London (Paperback)

Oskar Cox Jensen

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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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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: February 2023
Authors: Oskar Cox Jensen
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 978-1-108-82108-7
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Folk music
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > Music > Folk music
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LSN: 1-108-82108-1
Barcode: 9781108821087

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