Music In Edwardian London
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Music In Edwardian London
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Author : Simon McVeigh
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2024-05-21
Music In Edwardian London written by Simon McVeigh and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-21 with History categories.
Traversing London's musical culture, this book boldly illuminates the emergence of Edwardian London as a beacon of musical innovation. The dawning of a new century saw London emerge as a hub in a fast-developing global music industry, mirroring Britain's pivotal position between the continent, the Americas and the British Empire. It was a period of expansion, experiment and entrepreneurial energy. Rather than conservative and inward-looking, London was invigorated by new ideas, from pioneering musical comedy and revue to the modernist departures of Debussy and Stravinsky. Meanwhile, Elgar, Holst, Vaughan Williams, and a host of ambitious younger composers sought to reposition British music in a rapidly evolving soundscape. Music was central to society at every level. Just as opulent theatres proliferated in the West End, concert life was revitalised by new symphony orchestras, by the Queen's Hall promenade concerts, and by Sunday concerts at the vast Albert Hall. Through innumerable band and gramophone concerts in the parks, music from Wagner to Irving Berlin became available as never before. The book envisions a burgeoning urban culture through a series of snapshots - daily musical life in all its messy diversity. While tackling themes of cosmopolitanism and nationalism, high and low brows, centres and peripheries, it evokes contemporary voices and characterful individuals to illuminate the period. Challenging issues include the barriers faced by women and people of colour, and attitudes inhibiting the new generation of British composers - not to mention embedded imperialist ideologies reflecting London's precarious position at the centre of Empire. Engagingly written, Simon McVeigh's groundbreaking book reveals the exhilarating transformation of music in Edwardian London, which laid the foundations for the century to come.
Edwardian Popular Music
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Author : Ronald Pearsall
language : en
Publisher: Newton Abbot, [Eng.] ; North Pomfret, Vt. : David & Charles
Release Date : 1975
Edwardian Popular Music written by Ronald Pearsall and has been published by Newton Abbot, [Eng.] ; North Pomfret, Vt. : David & Charles this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Music categories.
Popular Music In England 1840 1914
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Author : Dave Russell
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1997
Popular Music In England 1840 1914 written by Dave Russell and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
In this important study, Dave Russell explores a wide range of Victorian and Edwardian musical life including brass bands, choral societies, music hall and popular concerts. He analyzes the way in which popular cultural practice was shaped by and, in turn, helped shape social and economic structures. Critically acclaimed on publication in 1987, the book has been fully revised in order to consider recent work in the field.
Victorian Popular Music
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Author : Ronald Pearsall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Victorian Popular Music written by Ronald Pearsall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Music categories.
The Pursuit Of High Culture
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Author : Christina Bashford
language : en
Publisher: Boydell Press
Release Date : 2007-11-15
The Pursuit Of High Culture written by Christina Bashford and has been published by Boydell Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-15 with Music categories.
This monograph investigates the promotion and consumption of high musical culture among leisured society in Victorian London, by focusing on the activities of the concert manager John Ella and his Musical Union.
Jerome Kern In Edwardian London
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Author : Andrew Lamb
language : en
Publisher: Brooklyn : Institute for Studies in American Music, Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York
Release Date : 1985
Jerome Kern In Edwardian London written by Andrew Lamb and has been published by Brooklyn : Institute for Studies in American Music, Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Music And Victorian Liberalism
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Author : Sarah Collins
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-06-06
Music And Victorian Liberalism written by Sarah Collins and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
Examines the interaction between music and liberal discourses in Victorian Britain, revealing the close interdependence of political and aesthetic practices.
The Idea Of Music In Victorian Fiction
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Author : Nicky Losseff
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-03
The Idea Of Music In Victorian Fiction written by Nicky Losseff and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-03 with Music categories.
The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction seeks to address fundamental questions about the function, meaning and understanding of music in nineteenth-century culture and society, as mediated through works of fiction. The eleven essays here, written by musicologists and literary scholars, range over a wide selection of works by both canonical writers such as Austen, Benson, Carlyle, Collins, Gaskell, Gissing, Eliot, Hardy, du Maurier and Wilde, and less-well-known figures such as Gertrude Hudson and Elizabeth Sara Sheppard. Each essay explores different strategies for interpreting the idea of music in the Victorian novel. Some focus on the degree to which scenes involving music illuminate what music meant to the writer and contemporary performers and listeners, and signify musical tastes of the time and the reception of particular composers. Other essays in the volume examine aspects of gender, race, sexuality and class that are illuminated by the deployment of music by the novelist. Together with its companion volume, The Figure of Music in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry edited by Phyllis Weliver (Ashgate, 2005), this collection suggests a new network of methodologies for the continuing cultural and social investigation of nineteenth-century music as reflected in that period's literary output.
Dance And Dancers In The Victorian And Edwardian Music Hall Ballet
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Author : Alexandra Carter
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-11-28
Dance And Dancers In The Victorian And Edwardian Music Hall Ballet written by Alexandra Carter and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-28 with Music categories.
First published in 2005. The Victorian and Edwardian music hall ballet has been a neglected facet of dance historiography, falling prey principally to the misguided assumption that any ballet not performed at the Opera House or 'legitimate' theatre necessarily meant it was of low cultural and artistic merit. Here Alexandra Carter identifies the traditional marginalization of the working class female participants in ballet historiography, and moves on to reinstate the 'lost' period of the music hall ballet and to apply a critical account of that period. Carter examines the working conditions of the dancers, the identities and professional lives of the ballet girls and the ways in which the ballet of the music hall embodied the sexual psyche of the period, particularly in its representations of the ballet girl and the ballerina. By drawing on newspapers, journals, theatre programmes, contemporary fiction, poetry and autobiography, Carter firmly locates the period in its social, economic and artistic context. The book culminates in the argument that there are direct links between the music hall ballet and what has been termed the 'birth' of British ballet in the 1930s; a link so long ignored by dance historians. This work will appeal not only to those interested in nineteenth century studies, but also to those working in the fields of dance studies, gender studies, cultural studies and the performing arts.
Murder Mayhem And Music Hall
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Author : Barry Anthony
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-02-27
Murder Mayhem And Music Hall written by Barry Anthony and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-27 with History categories.
The Strand is one of London's most iconic streets - today the bustling and thriving home of West End theatres and the luxurious Savoy hotel; in the Victorian era, the Strand was a much more seedy and destitute part of the city. Barry Anthony here explores the criminal and socially subversive behaviour which abounded in and around the Victorian Strand. He introduces us to a vast range of personalities - from prostitutes, confidence tricksters, vagrants and cadgers to the actors, comedians and music hall stars who trod the boards of the Strand's early theatres.