Not appreciated in Worthing?' Class expression and popular song texts in mid-nineteenth-century Britain

Bibliographic Data

ID4304475
AuthorsVic Gammon (corresponding author)
Year1984
Volume4
Pages5-24
Publication date1984-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePopular Music (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0261-1430 • E-ISSN: 1474-0095
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0261143000006140
OpenAlexW1979903486
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited12

Recent research shows that the English folksong collectors, who were active before the First World War, systematically selected what they took down from rural working-class singers, basing their selection on what they considered to be worth preserving from such singers' repertories. Their work, then, can only give us a biased and highly mediated impression of popular singing traditions (see Harker 1972 and 1982; Gammon 1980). The purpose of this article is to see if it is possible to go beyond the work of the collectors, to try to grasp something of the wholeness of popular nineteenth-century singing traditions, and also to situate those traditions socially

Aesthetics · Art · Class (philosophy · Epistemology · Expression (computer science · GRASP · Literature · Management · Popular music · Selection (genetic algorithm · Singing · Sociology · Computer Science · Cultural History and Identity Formation · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Music History and Culture · Philosophy

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