Popular music in England 1840-1914 A social history [Paperback]

The only in-depth study of the wider field of popular music in this period. Scholarly, but accessible. This is an Open University Set Text.

Foreword

Preface to the second edition

Introduction: music and society

Part 1 Control: music and the battle for the working-class mind

Music and morals, 1840-1880

Music and morals, 1880-1914

Part 2 Capitalism: entrepreneurs and popular music

The popular music insustry

The Music hall and its music

Social and political comment in music-hall song

Patriotism, jingoism and imperialism

Part 3 Community: the music of 'the people'

The emergence of a popular tradition

Brass bands

Choral societies

Music and social change

Conclusions

Appendix: Working-class composers

Select bibliography

Index

Dave Russell is Reader in the History of Popular Culture at the University of Central Lancashire