This much-needed book provides valuable insights into themes and
genres in popular song in the period c. 1600-1900. In particular it
is a study of popular ballads as they appeared on printed sheets
and as they were recorded by folk song collectors. Vic Gammon
displays his interest in the way song articulates aspects of
popular mentality and he relates the discourse of the songs to
social history. Gammon discusses the themes and narratives that run
through genres of song material and how these are repeated and
reworked through time. He argues that in spite of important social
and economic changes, the period 1600-1850 had a significant
cultural consistency and characteristic forms of popular musical
and cultural expression. These only changed radically under the
impact of industrialization and urbanization in the nineteenth
century. The book will appeal to those interested in folk song,
historical popular music (including church music), ballad
literature, popular literature, popular culture, social history,
anthropology and sociology.
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