Desire, Drink and Death in English Folk and Vernacular Song, 1600–1900
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ethnomusicological analysis
Folk Song
funeral
Funeral Hymns
Good Ale
hymn
Jellon Grame
karpeles
maud
Metrical Psalms
museum
musical
Nineteenth Century Popular Song
Popular Church Music
Pretty Babes
Pretty Maid
ritual and symbolism
scots
Seventeenth Century Ballad
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social change history
songs
Sussex Archaeological Society
Temperance Songs
Traditional Singer
vernacular musicology
Vernacular Songs
Vital Spark
Wild Rover
Woman Sat
Young Men
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- ISBN 9780754660941
- Weight: 560g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jan 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This much-needed book provides valuable insights into themes and genres in popular song in the period c. 1600-1900. In particular it is a study of popular ballads as they appeared on printed sheets and as they were recorded by folk song collectors. Vic Gammon displays his interest in the way song articulates aspects of popular mentality and he relates the discourse of the songs to social history. Gammon discusses the themes and narratives that run through genres of song material and how these are repeated and reworked through time. He argues that in spite of important social and economic changes, the period 1600-1850 had a significant cultural consistency and characteristic forms of popular musical and cultural expression. These only changed radically under the impact of industrialization and urbanization in the nineteenth century. The book will appeal to those interested in folk song, historical popular music (including church music), ballad literature, popular literature, popular culture, social history, anthropology and sociology.
Dr Vic Gammon was Senior Lecturer in Folk and Traditional Music in the International Centre for Music Studies, Newcastle University, UK. His D.Phil., completed at the University of Sussex, was on vernacular and religious music in nineteenth century Sussex and his research interests centre on British and North American vernacular and popular musics. He is a performer of English traditional music (mainly on the voice, anglo concertina, melodeon and banjo) and has composed music for a number of stage and radio plays. He retired from Newcastle University in 2010.
