This wide-ranging survey, part-anthology, part-social history
provides a unique study of popular song.
Tender or harsh, fleeting or long-remembered, song has always
been a vehicle for the expression of popular feeling, often as the
voice of the oppressed or of those in opposition to the power fo
the State.
It has won high praise:
'Magical . . . These popular songs tell us of life's pleasures
and pains from the cradle to the grave, of work and play, sport and
sex, loving and leaving, the town and the country . . . A book both
heart-rending and heart-warming. It is Palmer's achievement to
attune our ears to the sounds of the past.' Roy Porter in the
"Sunday Times "
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