Oskar Cox Jensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5647174 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oskar Cox Jensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oskar Cox |
| FAMILY NAME | Jensen |
| SIGNATURE | JENSEN O C |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8106-1248 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
(Special Section) The Hymn as Protest Song in England and its Empire, 1819–1919
Hymns played a role in envoicing the politics of protest in England long before their integration in the established Church – and do so to this day. Yet it was nineteenth-century radical movements that embraced the hymn as in many ways the ideal musical form. From the bloody field of Peterloo to the secularising South Place Society, from the mass meetings of Chartists to the top-down productions of the Fabian socialists, the century resounded wit…
The Folk
Journal Article The Folk: Music, Modernity, and the Political ImaginationRoss Cole Get access The Folk: Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination. By Ross Cole. Pp. 276. ( University of California Press, Oakland, CA, 2021. ISBN 978-0-520-38374-6, £66.) Oskar Cox Jensen Oskar Cox Jensen University of East Anglia, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume 103, Issue 3, August 2022, P…
Music to Some Consequence
A naval chaplain in the 1790s, a radical arrested after Peterloo, and a smash hit of blackface minstrelsy: these three disparate historical actors all provide exemplary cases of music in action, playing upon the political passions of the British people. Thinking across the three examples, this article reflects upon the aims of the forum Music and Politics in Britain, c.1780–1850, as well as advancing its own autonomous argument. Alexander Duncan …
Music in North-East England, 1500-1800
Of Ships and Spectacles
This article considers three case studies – the first aqua-drama at Sadler's Wells in 1804, the naumachia in Hyde Park of 1814, and the launching of HMS Nelson at Woolwich, also in 1814 – in order to discuss maritime spectacle in Regency London. I identify an essentially political distinction between the representation of ships and the role of sailors, linked to wider questions of authenticity as understood by contemporary London audiences. I arg…
Charles Dibdin and Late Georgian Culture
Charles Dibdin (1745–1814) was one of the most popular and influential producers of late Georgian culture. The huge diversity of his work and career defies simple categorization. He was, often at one and the same time, an actor, lyricist, composer, singer-songwriter, comedian, theatre-manager, journalist, and author of novels, historical works, polemical pamphlets, and guides to musical education. Consequently, he is important to many different f…
Dibdin and Robert Bloomfield
This interlude situates Dibdin in a milieu that may surprise us today, but that was a key comparison to many contemporaries: that is, alongside rural labouring-class poets, with particular emphasis on Robert Bloomfield. Rather than revisit Raymond Williams (who spares only two pages for Bloomfield in The Country and the City and ignores Dibdin), it interrogates the intersection of metropolis and countryside by locating these two writers’ texts wi…
Napoleon and British Song, 1797-1822
Napoleon and British Song, 1797–1822
This study offers a radical reassessment of a crucial period of political and cultural history. By looking at some 400 songs, many of which are made available to hear, and at their writers, singers, a
‘A Hacknied Tune’? Song Culture in Napoleonic Britain
Until his death in 1808, John Freeth owned a tavern in Birmingham. 1 As his obituary notes, Freeth — a celebrated radical and debater — did more than serve drinks. Here was a man: Who, when good news is brought to town, Immediately to work sits down, And business fairly to go through, Writes songs, finds tunes, and sings them too. 2 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be u…
The Travels of John Magee
This article is concerned with the circulation of topical print culture in Britain during the Napoleonic Wars, focusing on carriers rather than texts. Centred on the biographical and autobiographical accounts of ballad singers and chapmen, especially John Magee's Travels, it maps the geographies of numerous print-selling itinerants. By stressing the role of these individuals as mediators of topical material, it argues that our reading of the rece…
Of Ships and Spectacles
This article considers three case studies – the first aqua-drama at Sadler's Wells in 1804, the naumachia in Hyde Park of 1814, and the launching of HMS Nelson at Woolwich, also in 1814 – in order to discuss maritime spectacle in Regency London. I identify an essentially political distinction between the representation of ships and the role of sailors, linked to wider questions of authenticity as understood by contemporary London audiences. I arg…
The Travels of John Magee
This article is concerned with the circulation of topical print culture in Britain during the Napoleonic Wars, focusing on carriers rather than texts. Centred on the biographical and autobiographical accounts of ballad singers and chapmen, especially John Magee's Travels, it maps the geographies of numerous print-selling itinerants. By stressing the role of these individuals as mediators of topical material, it argues that our reading of the rece…
The Travels of John Magee
This article is concerned with the circulation of topical print culture in Britain during the Napoleonic Wars, focusing on carriers rather than texts. Centred on the biographical and autobiographical accounts of ballad singers and chapmen, especially John Magee's Travels, it maps the geographies of numerous print-selling itinerants. By stressing the role of these individuals as mediators of topical material, it argues that our reading of the rece…
Napoleon and British Song, 1797–1822
This study offers a radical reassessment of a crucial period of political and cultural history. By looking at some 400 songs, many of which are made available to hear, and at their writers, singers, a
‘A Hacknied Tune’? Song Culture in Napoleonic Britain
Until his death in 1808, John Freeth owned a tavern in Birmingham. 1 As his obituary notes, Freeth — a celebrated radical and debater — did more than serve drinks. Here was a man: Who, when good news is brought to town, Immediately to work sits down, And business fairly to go through, Writes songs, finds tunes, and sings them too. 2 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be u…
Napoleon and British Song, 1797-1822
Charles Dibdin and Late Georgian Culture
Charles Dibdin (1745–1814) was one of the most popular and influential producers of late Georgian culture. The huge diversity of his work and career defies simple categorization. He was, often at one and the same time, an actor, lyricist, composer, singer-songwriter, comedian, theatre-manager, journalist, and author of novels, historical works, polemical pamphlets, and guides to musical education. Consequently, he is important to many different f…
Dibdin and Robert Bloomfield
This interlude situates Dibdin in a milieu that may surprise us today, but that was a key comparison to many contemporaries: that is, alongside rural labouring-class poets, with particular emphasis on Robert Bloomfield. Rather than revisit Raymond Williams (who spares only two pages for Bloomfield in The Country and the City and ignores Dibdin), it interrogates the intersection of metropolis and countryside by locating these two writers’ texts wi…
Of Ships and Spectacles
This article considers three case studies – the first aqua-drama at Sadler's Wells in 1804, the naumachia in Hyde Park of 1814, and the launching of HMS Nelson at Woolwich, also in 1814 – in order to discuss maritime spectacle in Regency London. I identify an essentially political distinction between the representation of ships and the role of sailors, linked to wider questions of authenticity as understood by contemporary London audiences. I arg…
Music in North-East England, 1500-1800
Music to Some Consequence
A naval chaplain in the 1790s, a radical arrested after Peterloo, and a smash hit of blackface minstrelsy: these three disparate historical actors all provide exemplary cases of music in action, playing upon the political passions of the British people. Thinking across the three examples, this article reflects upon the aims of the forum Music and Politics in Britain, c.1780–1850, as well as advancing its own autonomous argument. Alexander Duncan …
The Folk
Journal Article The Folk: Music, Modernity, and the Political ImaginationRoss Cole Get access The Folk: Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination. By Ross Cole. Pp. 276. ( University of California Press, Oakland, CA, 2021. ISBN 978-0-520-38374-6, £66.) Oskar Cox Jensen Oskar Cox Jensen University of East Anglia, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume 103, Issue 3, August 2022, P…
(Special Section) The Hymn as Protest Song in England and its Empire, 1819–1919
Hymns played a role in envoicing the politics of protest in England long before their integration in the established Church – and do so to this day. Yet it was nineteenth-century radical movements that embraced the hymn as in many ways the ideal musical form. From the bloody field of Peterloo to the secularising South Place Society, from the mass meetings of Chartists to the top-down productions of the Fabian socialists, the century resounded wit…
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