Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth Century: A Cultural History of the Songster

Contents

• 1. The nineteenth-century songster: recovering a lost musical artefact Paul Watt, Derek B. Scott and Patrick Spedding;
• Part I . Production, Function and Commerce:
• 2. American secular songsters in the nineteenth century: an overview Norm Cohen;
• 3. The prefaces to songsters: the law, aesthetics, performers and performance Paul Watt;
• 4. The genesis of Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies, 1808-34 Sarah McCleave;
• Part II . Politics:
• 5. The US Presidential campaign songster, 1840-1900 Derek B. Scott;
• 6. Friendship, cosmopolitan connections and late Victorian socialist songbook culture Kate Bowan;
• 7. 'Confound their politics': the political uses of God Save the King-Queen Paul Pickering;
• 8. Charles Robert Thatcher's songsters: politics on the goldfields of Victoria, Australia Mark Pinner;
• Part III . Nation, Place and Purpose:
• 9. Rethinking the songster and national-cosmopolitan identity in Lowland Scotland, c.1787-1830 Andrew Greenwood;
• 10. The blackface songster in Britain Michael Pickering;
• 11. Popular songsters and the British military: the case of The Girl I Left Behind Me Anthea Skinner;
• 12. Australian songsters and the Australian folk song movement Graeme Smith.