From Mummers to Madness: A Social History of Popular Music in England, c.1770s to c.1970s

Contents

• Chapter 1 Introduction How can I keep from singing ... and dancing?
• Part 1 : popular music in england in the acoustic age, c.1770s to c.1900s
• Section 1 : Nymphs and Shepherds? Popular music c.1770s - c.1840s
• Chapter 2 'Aive down your prong and stamp along': Festivals, feasts, and fairs
• Chapter 3 'Between the jigs and the reels': Popular dance and dancing
• Chapter 4 'I'll sing you a song and a very pretty one': Broadsides, ballads and more
• Chapter 5 'Come all you bold heroes, give ear to my Song': Sport, drink and sex
• Chapter 6 'In Maidstone gaol, I am lamenting': Crime, punishment and socio-political comment
• Section 2 : Music-hall and its rivals, c.1840s - c.1900s
• Chapter 7 'Sing, sing! Why shouldn't we sing?' Popular music in the age of the music hall
• Chapter 8 'Dancing to the organ (in the Mile End Road)': Dance and Dancing Saloons
• Chapter 9 'Champagne Charlie is my name': The swell, the Irish and the cockney
• Chapter 10 'A little of what you fancy': Love, marriage and other social problems
• Chapter 11 'The Boers have got my daddy': Politics domestic and foreign
• Chapter 12 'The Minstrels Parade': Blackface minstrelsy and the music hall
• Part 2 : english popular music in the age of technology, c.1900s to c.1970s
• Section 3 : Variety and its rivals, c.1890s - c.1950s
• Chapter 13 'Fings ain't what they used to be': The strange and lingering death of variety theatre
• Chapter 14 'I wish I could shimmy like my sister Kate': Dance halls and dancing between the wars
• Chapter 15 'Let's have a song upon the gramophone': Manufactured music - records, radio and the cinema
• Chapter 16 'I like bananas': Popular songs of the 1920s and 1930s
• Chapter 17 'Music while you work' ... and play:Popular music c.1940-1955
• Section 4 : The empires strike back, c.1950s - c.1970s
• Chapter 18 'Don't You Rock Me, Daddy-O': Skiffle and rock 'n' roll
• Chapter 19 'Twist and shout': Illusion and disillusion in the 1960s and 1970s
• Chapter 20 'Woke Up This Morning:' How we got the(rhythm and) blues - and found some soul
• Chapter 21 'Islands in the Sun': Calypso to reggae
• Chapter 22 Conclusion Mummers to Madness- the broader picture
• Appendix Late-eighteenth/early-nineteenthcentury tunes General
• Index Song and Tune
• Index