Sources of popular song in early nineteenth-century Britain

In urbanised Britain by the nineteenth century, the long symbiosis of the oral tradition with songs transmitted at least in part through printing was turning firmly in favour of the latter. Despite this - and largely because of the welcome rediscovery of industrial folk song - our picture of popular song between 1800 and 1850 is currently dominated by music in the survival of which oral transmission has played the greater part. Even when the music we hear can be shown with any certainty to have been in circulation at that time, a major cirticism of this emphasis arises. The oral tradition is a sifting process; what survives has passed 'the test of time', and this can only obscure the picture

Art · Certainty · Epistemology · Literature · Popular music · Cultural History and Identity Formation · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Music History and Culture · Philosophy

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