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Popular Music in England, 1840-1914
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Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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

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." . . the best general examination of popular music in Victorian England to date. It is written with rigor and panache and no small measure of affection." --"Popular Music"

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