And Spinning So With Voices Meet, Like Nightingales They Sung Full Sweet’
Unravelling Representations of Singing in Pre-Industrial Textile Production
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12730744 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emma Robertson (0000-0001-6193-0082, Sheffield Hallam University, Loughborough University, Loughborough University Business School, corresponding author), Michael Pickering (0000-0002-8085-3673, Sheffield Hallam University, Loughborough University, Loughborough University Business School), Marek Korczynski (0000-0003-1517-6001, Sheffield Hallam University, Loughborough University, Loughborough University Business School) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 11-31 |
| Publication date | 2008-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural and Social History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1478-0038 • E-ISSN: 1478-0046 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2752/147800408x266572 |
| OpenAlex | W2023896037 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
This article examines the relationship between music and work in pre-industrial textile production and the ways in which it has been conceived and represented. Focusing on the processes of lace making, spinning and weaving, we consider whether working conditions were conducive to music making and the nature of the music being performed. In so doing we unpick idealized conceptions of singing by pre-industrial workers, studying music as taking place in work contexts structured by social hierarchies of gender, age and class. Our approach brings social and cultural history together with theories of musical structure and process in order to further our understanding of music in everyday life
Acoustics · Archaeology · Art · Economics · Physics · Production (economics · Singing · Spinning · Textile · Visual arts · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing · Engineering · History · Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Mechanical Engineering
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |