Verfasst von:	Cox Jensen, Oskar [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	The ballad-singer in Georgian and Victorian London
Verf.angabe:	Oskar Cox Jensen
Verlagsort:	Cambridge ; New York ; Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore
Verlag:	Cambridge University Press
Jahr:	2021
Umfang:	xvii, 280 Seiten
Illustrationen:	Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele
ISBN:	978-1-108-83056-0
	978-1-108-82108-7
Abstract:	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.
DOI:	doi:10.1017/9781108908108
URL:	DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108908108
Schlagwörter:	(g)London    / (s)Straßenmusikant
	(s)Englisch    / (s)Ballade    / (z)Geschichte 1700-1900
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Cox Jensen, Oskar, 1988 - : The ballad-singer in Georgian and Victorian London. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021. - 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 280 Seiten)
RVK-Notation:	HK 1151
	HL 1161
K10plus-PPN:	1750554968