[PDF] Edwardian Popular Music eBook

Author : Dave Russell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 17,86 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780719052613

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In this important study, Dave Russell explores a wide range of Victorian and Edwardian musical life including brass bands, choral societies, music hall and popular concerts. He analyzes the way in which popular cultural practice was shaped by and, in turn, helped shape social and economic structures. Critically acclaimed on publication in 1987, the book has been fully revised in order to consider recent work in the field.

Author : Ms Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 14,40 MB
Release : 2015-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1472439988

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In her study of music-making in the Edwardian novel, Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg examines works by authors such as Dorothy Richardson, E.M. Forster, Henry Handel Richardson, and Compton Mackenzie to show that the invention and development of the player piano had a significant effect on the perception, performance and appreciation of music during the period. She draws on archival materials to place the player piano in the context of Edwardian commercial and technical discourse.

Author : Morna O'Neill
Publisher : Yc British Art
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 24,86 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN :

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This is the twentieth in a series of occasional volumes devoted to studies in British art, published by the Yale Center for British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and distributed by Yale University Press. --Book Jacket.

Author : John Mullen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 29,91 MB
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 1317016114

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Using a collection of over one thousand popular songs from the war years, as well as around 150 soldiers’ songs, John Mullen provides a fascinating insight into the world of popular entertainment during the First World War. Mullen considers the position of songs of this time within the history of popular music, and the needs, tastes and experiences of working-class audiences who loved this music. To do this, he dispels some of the nostalgic, rose-tinted myths about music hall. At a time when recording companies and record sales were marginal, the book shows the centrality of the live show and of the sale of sheet music to the economy of the entertainment industry. Mullen assesses the popularity and significance of the different genres of musical entertainment which were common in the war years and the previous decades, including music hall, revue, pantomime, musical comedy, blackface minstrelsy, army entertainment and amateur entertainment in prisoner of war camps. He also considers non-commercial songs, such as hymns, folk songs and soldiers’ songs and weaves them into a subtle and nuanced approach to the nature of popular song, the ways in which audiences related to the music and the effects of the competing pressures of commerce, propaganda, patriotism, social attitudes and the progress of the war.

Author : Dr John Mullen
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 30,20 MB
Release : 2015-08-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 1472441613

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Using a collection of over one thousand popular songs from the war years, as well as around 150 soldiers’ songs, John Mullen provides a fascinating insight into the world of popular entertainment during the First World War. Mullen considers the position of songs of this time within the history of popular music, and the needs, tastes and experiences of working-class audiences who loved this music. To do this, he dispels some of the nostalgic, rose-tinted myths about music hall. At a time when recording companies and record sales were marginal, the book shows the centrality of the live show and of the sale of sheet music to the economy of the entertainment industry. Mullen assesses the popularity and significance of the different genres of musical entertainment which were common in the war years and the previous decades, including music hall, revue, pantomime, musical comedy, blackface minstrelsy, army entertainment and amateur entertainment in prisoner of war camps. He also considers non-commercial songs, such as hymns, folk songs and soldiers’ songs and weaves them into a subtle and nuanced approach to the nature of popular song, the ways in which audiences related to the music and the effects of the competing pressures of commerce, propaganda, patriotism, social attitudes and the progress of the war.

Author : Paul Maloney
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,55 MB
Release : 2003-09-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780719061479

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While London dominated the wider British music hall in the 19th century, Glasgow, the Second City of the Empire, was the center of a vigorous Scottish performing culture, one developed in a Presbyterian society with a very different experience of industrial urbanization. It drew heavily on older fairground and traditional forms in developing its own brand of this new urban entertainment. The book explores all aspects of the Scottish music hall industry, from the lives and professional culture of performers and impresarios to the place of music hall in Scottish life. It also explores issues of national identity, both in terms of Scottish audiences' responses to the promotion of imperial themes in songs and performing material, and in the version of Scottish identity projected by Lauder and other kilted acts at home and abroad in America, Canada, Australia and throughout the English-speaking world.

Author : Nancy Meribeth Riley
Publisher :
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 25,70 MB
Release : 2006
Category :
ISBN : 9780494219867

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The Edwardian era was a pivotal point in the attempted shift of placement, in art music as well as in other cultural endeavours, away from the elevated climes of the gentlemanly elite and into the more every-day realm of the Common Man. The goals of this study are to highlight political, economic, and social elements of nineteenth-century England that assist in an understanding of the musical environment and aspirations in the period leading up to the First World War, and to look at the delineation of a place for art music with reference to the ideals and values of the cultural elite and the members of the music community who promoted it. This study is organized to move from those topics of more general socio-cultural application to those of more specifically musical application. The first three chapters look at aspects of English social, political and economic history that had a bearing on the development, over the nineteenth century, of the attitudes of the English of various class sectors towards music in private and public life (focusing on musical activity in London), on the segregation of art music from commercial popular music, and on the elevation of orchestral music to the pinnacle of the hierarchy of music by the end of the century. The last three chapters deal more specifically with issues associated with the profession of music in the years leading up to and including the so-called "musical renaissance." The concept of how the musical renaissance was institutionalized and encouraged by the dominant (professional) class, parallel to other contemporaneous social and cultural constructs, is considered as part of the general trend towards modernization, professional development, and nationalization. The debate within the professional ranks over the nature and role of national music is related to the overall endeavour by the dominant class to establish a single national cultural identity of Englishness, through the invention of tradition and the invocation of a shared heritage. Finally, specific issues concerning the place of music in the Edwardian era are canvassed, by reference to the personal ideologies and music of Parry, Elgar and Vaughan Williams.

Author : Norman McCord
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 45,10 MB
Release : 2007-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0199261644

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This fully revised and updated new edition, extended to cover the period up to 1914, provides the ultimate introduction to British history between the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the outbreak of the First World War.