The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London Cox Jensen Oskar
The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London Cox Jensen Oskar For three centuries, ballad-singers thrived at the heart of life in London. This history spans the Georgian heyday and Victorian…
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The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London Cox Jensen Oskar
For three centuries, ballad-singers thrived at the heart of life in London. This history spans the Georgian heyday and Victorian decline of those who sang in the city streets in order to sell printed songs. 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.
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. 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. Complemented by sixty-two recorded songs, this study demonstrates how ballad-singers are figures of central importance in
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