Popular music in England 1840-1914
A social history
By David Russell
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- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 978-0-7190-5261-3
- Pages: 368
- Price: £15.99
- Published Date: November 1997
- Series: Music and Society
Description
The only in-depth study of the wider field of popular music in this period. Scholarly, but accessible. This is an Open University Set Text.
Contents
Foreword
Preface to the second edition
Introduction: music and society
Part 1 Control: music and the battle for the working-class mind
Music and morals, 1840-1880
Music and morals, 1880-1914
Part 2 Capitalism: entrepreneurs and popular music
The popular music insustry
The Music hall and its music
Social and political comment in music-hall song
Patriotism, jingoism and imperialism
Part 3 Community: the music of 'the people'
The emergence of a popular tradition
Brass bands
Choral societies
Music and social change
Conclusions
Appendix: Working-class composers
Select bibliography
Index
Author
Dave Russell is Reader in the History of Popular Culture at the University of Central Lancashire
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