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Music in the West Country - Social and Cultural History across an English Region (Hardcover)
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Music in the West Country - Social and Cultural History across an English Region (Hardcover)
Series: Music in Britain, 1600-2000
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The first regional history of music in England. Music in the West
Country is the first regional history of music in England. Ranging
over seven hundred years, from the minstrels, waits, and cathedral
choristers of the fourteenth century to the Bristol Sound of the
late twentieth, the book explores the region's soundscape, from its
gateway cities of Bristol and Salisbury in the east to the Isles of
Scilly in the west, and examines music-making in tiny villages as
well as conditions in important centres such as Bath, Exeter,
Plymouth, and Bournemouth. What emerges is both a study of the
typical - musical practices which would apply to any English region
- and a portrait of the unique - features born of the region's
physicalisolation and charm, among them the growth of festival
culture, the mythologising of folk music, the late survival of
parish psalmody and nonconformist carolling, and the unique
continuance, today, of a professional resort orchestra, the
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Banfield's vividly written and
extremely readable history of music in the west country considers
an array of subjects, firmly centred on people's stories: musical
inventions and theidea of tradition, music as cultural capital, the
economics of musical employment and the demographics of
musicianship, musical networks, the relationship of the hinterlands
to the metropolis, the influence of topography, the importance of
institutions and events, and the question of how to measure value.
A study in prosopography, it shows how people went about their
lives with music and explores how things changed for them - or did
not. STEPHENBANFIELD is Emeritus Professor of Music at the
University of Bristol.
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