ISBN:
9781526106223
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 378 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Studies in Imperialism
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.484209033
Keywords:
Geschichte 1790-1914
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History / bicssc
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Humanities / History / bicssc
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HISTORY / General / bisach
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History of music / thema
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Music / Social aspects / History / 18th century
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Music / Political aspects / History / 18th century
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Music / Social aspects / History / 19th century
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Music / Political aspects / History / 19th century
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Radicalism in music
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Politische Kultur
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Gesellschaft
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Musik
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Englisches Sprachgebiet
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Englisches Sprachgebiet
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Politische Kultur
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Gesellschaft
;
Musik
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Geschichte 1790-1914
Abstract:
"This book explores the role of music in the transmission of political culture over time and distance, focusing on radicals and reformers committed to the struggle for a better future. It follows in the footsteps of relentlessly travelling activists - both women and men - and brings to light the importance of music-making in the lived experience of politics. It shows how music encouraged, unified, divided, consoled and reminded; and it helps to understand better the affective register of the political and cultural life of those who composed, performed and consumed it. Throughout the long nineteenth century the sounds of liberty resonated across the Anglophone world: in the faint strains of 'rough music' played on the streets of Toronto and the 'middle-brow' performances within the walls of a secularist coven in Christchurch; in cacophonous election songs swirling around the hustings in Glasgow and Sunday afternoon chamber music concerts in the heart of radical Holborn; in defiant anthems blaring slightly out of tune on picket lines in Broken Hill and in hymns warbled by labour church choirs in Winnipeg. The first section examines songs; the second examines music's place in the public sphere where people - individually and collectively - made music when marching, electioneering, celebrating and commemorating, as well as striking, rioting and rebelling. The final section explores music-making within the walls of a range of associations and institutions including the difficult and often destructive part it played in European interaction with indigenous people" --Back cover
Abstract:
Throughout the long nineteenth-century the sounds of liberty resonated across the Anglophone world. Focusing on radicals and reformers committed to the struggle for a better future, this book explores the role of music in the transmission of political culture over time and distance. Following in the footsteps of relentlessly travelling activists - women and men - it brings to light the importance of music making in the lived experience of politics. It shows how music encouraged, unified, divided, consoled, reminded, inspired and, at times, oppressed. The book examines iconic songs; the sound of music as radicals and reformers were marching, electioneering, celebrating, commemorating as well as striking, rioting and rebelling; and it listens within the walls of a range of associations where it was a part of a way of life, inspiring, nurturing, though at times restrictive. It provides an opportunity to hear history as it happened
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: the sounds of liberty --1. Songs of the world --2. The sound of marching feet --3. Votes for a song --4 'Sing a Song of Sixpence' --5. Music, morals and the middle class --6. The challenges of uplift --7 'Sing of the warriors of labour': radical religion, secularism and the hymn --Conclusion: 'And they sang a new song' --Index
DOI:
10.7765/9781526106223
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