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The singing bourgeois:
songs of the Victorian drawing room and
parlour
Derek B. Scott
First published in 1989 "The Singing Bourgeois: songs of the Victorian drawing room and parlour" challenges
the myth that the 'Victorian parlour song' is a clear-cut genre.
Scott
reveals the huge diversity of musical forms and styles that influenced the songs
performed in middle class homes during the nineteenth century, from the
assimilation of Celtic and Afro-American culture by songwriters, to the
emergence of forms of sacred song performed in the home.
The popularity of
these domestic songs opened up opportunities to women composers, and a chapter
of the book is dedicated to the discussion of women songwriters and their work.
The commercial success of bourgeois song through the sale of sheet music
demonstrated how music might be incorporated into a system of capitalist
enterprise.
Scott examines the early amateur music market and its evolution into
an increasingly professionalized activity towards the end of the
century.
This new updated edition features an additional chapter which
provides a broad survey of music and class in London, drawing on sources that
have appeared since the book's first publication.
An overview of recent research
is also given in a section of additional notes.
The new bibliography of
nineteenth-century British and American popular song is the most comprehensive
of its kind and includes information on twentieth-century collections of songs,
relevant periodicals, catalogues, dictionaries and indexes, as well as useful
databases and internet sites.
Monday, December 24, 2012
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