Light Music in Britain since 1870: A Survey
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British Light Music
British musical heritage
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Cicely Courtneidge
cultural music studies
Edward German
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Eric Fenby
evolution of British light music genre
Granville Bantock
Hawkes Music Publishers
Haydn Wood
Henry Wood Promenade Concerts
Hiawatha's Wedding Feast
Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast
HMS Pinafore
Jazz Age
Lennox Berkeley
Light Music
Light Music Composer
Light Orchestral Music
music hall traditions
Pop Star
Queen's Hall
Queen's Hall Orchestra
Queen’s Hall
Queen’s Hall Orchestra
radio and film soundtracks
Richard Addinsell
Robert Farnon
Savoy Operas
Savoy Orpheans
Sir Henry Wood
social history of music
Teddy Bear's Picnic
Teddy Bear’s Picnic
twentieth century composers
Young Man
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- ISBN 9781859283370
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 14 Dec 2001
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In many ways the history of British light music knits together the social and economic history of the country with that of its general musical heritage. Numerous 'serious' composers from Elgar to Britten composed light music, and the genre adapted itself to incorporate the changing fashions heralded by the rise and fall of music hall, the drawing room ballad, ragtime, jazz and the revue. From the 1950s the recording and broadcasting industries provided a new home for light music as an accompaniment to radio programmes and films. Geoffrey Self deftly handles a wealth of information to illustrate the immense role that light music has played in British culture over the last 130 years. His insightful assessments of the best and the most shameful examples of the genre help to pinpoint its enduring qualities; qualities which enable it to maintain a presence in the face of today's domination by commercial popular music.
Geoffrey Self
