Almost 20 years ago Michael Brocken created from his doctoral research, what became both
a seminal and contested volume concerning the social mores surrounding the British Folk …

For three centuries, ballad-singers thrived at the heart of life in London. One of history's great
paradoxes, they were routinely disparaged and persecuted, living on the margins, yet …

Who are" the folk" in folk music? This book traces the musical culture of these elusive figures
in Britain and the US during a crucial period of industrialization from 1870 to 1930, and …

Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize, and a Daily Telegraph and BBC History Magazine
Book of the Year. On the night of 23 February 1820, twenty-five impoverished craftsmen …

In asking 'what did the London audience know about Shakespeare before Bardolatory, and
how did it know?', Robert D. Hume posed what he termed an 'embarrassingly large and …

This article illuminates ways in which memory of Ireland's Great Famine or 'an Gorta
Mór'(1845–1852) shaped US music during the US Civil War (1861–1865). Among …

The Art of Populism in US Politics investigates connections between populist politics and
artistic expressions in the United States in the Trump era. Beginning with comparisons …

This special issue on “song and the city” attempts to open up the category of song for the
study of the Romantic period by detaching it from associations with bards and minstrels and …

This volume of primary source material examines the organisation of music in Britian during
the ninteenth century. Sources explore music careers and professions, music societies …

Most modern histories of the classical guitar are devoted to solo playing. They therefore
forego a different kind of history based upon the guitar used as an accompaniment for a …