Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth Century: A Cultural History of the Songster
- Editor: Scott, Derek B.
- Editor: Spedding, Patrick
- Editor: Watt, Paul
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Contents
- 1. The nineteenth-century songster: recovering a lost musical artefact Paul Watt, Derek B. Scott and Patrick Spedding;
- Part I . Production, Function and Commerce:
- 2. American secular songsters in the nineteenth century: an overview Norm Cohen;
- 3. The prefaces to songsters: the law, aesthetics, performers and performance Paul Watt;
- 4. The genesis of Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies, 1808-34 Sarah McCleave;
- Part II . Politics:
- 5. The US Presidential campaign songster, 1840-1900 Derek B. Scott;
- 6. Friendship, cosmopolitan connections and late Victorian socialist songbook culture Kate Bowan;
- 7. 'Confound their politics': the political uses of God Save the King-Queen Paul Pickering;
- 8. Charles Robert Thatcher's songsters: politics on the goldfields of Victoria, Australia Mark Pinner;
- Part III . Nation, Place and Purpose:
- 9. Rethinking the songster and national-cosmopolitan identity in Lowland Scotland, c.1787-1830 Andrew Greenwood;
- 10. The blackface songster in Britain Michael Pickering;
- 11. Popular songsters and the British military: the case of The Girl I Left Behind Me Anthea Skinner;
- 12. Australian songsters and the Australian folk song movement Graeme Smith.