Cheap print and popular song in the nineteenth century : a cultural history of the songster / edited by Paul Watt, Derek B. Scott and Patrick Spedding.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 The Nineteenth- Century Songster; References; Part 1 Production, Function and Commerce; 2 American Secular Songsters in the Nineteenth Century; Introduction; Before 1820; 1820-1860; 1860s-1890s; After 1890; Conclusion; Songsters Referred To in the Text; References; Online Resources; 3 The Prefaces to Songsters; Authorship and the Law; Dibdin and Burton: Law and Agency; Aesthetics; Performers and Their Reputations; Conclusion.

Songsters Referred To in the TextReferences; 4 The Genesis of Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies, 1808-1834; References; Archives; Appendix; Part 2 Politics; 5 The US Presidential Campaign Songster, 1840-1900; Songsters Referred To in the Text; Songsters Not Referred To in the Text; Online Sources; References; 6 Friendship, Cosmopolitan Connections and Late Victorian Socialist Songbook Culture; Songsters Referred To in the Text; References; 7 'Confound Their Politics': The Political Uses of 'God Save the King-Queen'; Songsters Referred To in the Text; References.

8 Charles Robert Thatcher's SongstersIntroduction; Who Was Charles Thatcher?; 'There's Gold in Them Thar Hills'; The Victoria Songster; Thatcher's Colonial Songster and Thatcher's Colonial Minstrel; Conclusion; Songsters Referred To in the Text; References; Part 3 Nation, Place and Purpose; 9 Rethinking the Songster and ƯNational-Cosmopolitan Identity in Lowland Scotland, c. 1787-1830; Introduction; Historical Background and Scottish Enlightenment Improvement; Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Songster; Allan Ramsay (1686-1758); George Thomson and the National Music of Scotland.

'Lochaber'Improvement and Representations of Scottish Gaelic Music; Conclusion; Songsters Referred To in the Text; References; 10 The Blackface Songster in Britain; Introduction; Early Blackface Songsters; Later Blackface Songsters; Conclusion; Songsters Referred To in the Text; References; 11 Popular Songsters and the British Military; The Origins of 'The Girl I Left Behind Me'; Popular Song in the British Military; Songsters; The British Army War-Song Album; Conclusion; Songsters Referred To in the Text; References; 12 Australian Songsters and the Australian Folk Song Movement.

Songsters and the Folk Song MovementSongsters Referred To in the Text; References; Index.

This is the first book to detail the musical and cultural significance of the songster.

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