Music In Edwardian London

Author : Simon McVeigh
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781837651344

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Music in Edwardian London by Simon McVeigh Pdf

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.

Author : Ronald Pearsall
Publisher : Newton Abbot, [Eng.] ; North Pomfret, Vt. : David & Charles
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Music
ISBN : UCAL:B4328949

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Edwardian Popular Music by Ronald Pearsall Pdf

Author : Dave Russell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0719052610

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Popular Music in England 1840-1914 by Dave Russell Pdf

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.

Author : Ronald Pearsall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Music
ISBN : UCSC:32106001363248

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Victorian Popular Music by Ronald Pearsall Pdf

Author : Dagmar Kift
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1996-10-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521474728

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The Victorian Music Hall by Dagmar Kift Pdf

With the exception of the occasional local case study, music-hall history has until now been presented as the history of the London halls. This book attempts to redress the balance by setting music-hall history within a national perspective. Kift also sheds a new light on the roles of managements, performers and audiences. For example, the author confutes the commonly held assumption that most women in the halls were prostitutes and shows them to have been working women accompanied by workmates of both sexes or by their families. She argues that before the 1890s the halls catered predominantly to working-class and lower middle-class audiences of men and women of all ages and were instrumental in giving them a strong and self-confident identity. The hall's ability to sustain a distinct class-awareness was one of their greatest strengths - but this factor was also at the root of many of the controversies which surrounded them. These controversies are at the centre of the book and Kift treats them as test cases for social relations which provide fresh insights into nineteenth-century British society and politics.

Author : Sarah Collins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108480055

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Music and Victorian Liberalism by Sarah Collins Pdf

Examines the interaction between music and liberal discourses in Victorian Britain, revealing the close interdependence of political and aesthetic practices.

Author : Christina Bashford
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1843832984

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The Pursuit of High Culture by Christina Bashford Pdf

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. 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 [1845-81], an eminent, long-lived institution for chamber music, much fêted across Europe in its day. It combines a biography of Ella with a social-economic history of the Musical Union, its players, repertoire and audiences, and sets them against the gradually shifting contexts for London concerts, chamber music and cultural life. Ella's extraordinary life story, which began in provincial, artisan-class obscurity and ended in the upper echelons of London society, shapes thenarrative. Such themes as entrepreneurship, concert management, taste shaping, music appreciation and elite social networks are discussed throughout, as is the curious interplay between the desire to 'sacralize' chamber music, especially Beethoven's, on the one hand, and the need to survive amid the increasing commercial imperatives of London concert life on the other. CHRISTINA BASHFORD is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Author : Rosemary Golding
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351965743

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The Music Profession in Britain, 1780-1920 by Rosemary Golding Pdf

Professionalisation was a key feature of the changing nature of work and society in the nineteenth century, with formal accreditation, registration and organisation becoming increasingly common. Trades and occupations sought protection and improved status via alignment with the professions: an attempt to impose order and standards amid rapid social change, urbanisation and technological development. The structures and expectations governing the music profession were no exception, and were central to changing perceptions of musicians and music itself during the long nineteenth century. The central themes of status and identity run throughout this book, charting ways in which the music profession engaged with its place in society. Contributors investigate the ways in which musicians viewed their own identities, public perceptions of the working musician, the statuses of different sectors of the profession and attempts to manipulate both status and identity. Ten chapters examine a range of sectors of the music profession, from publishers and performers to teachers and military musicians, and overall themes include class, gender and formal accreditation. The chapters demonstrate the wide range of sectors within the music profession, the different ways in which these took on status and identity, and the unique position of professional musicians both to adopt and to challenge social norms.

Author : Alexandra Carter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351163620

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Dance and Dancers in the Victorian and Edwardian Music Hall Ballet by Alexandra Carter Pdf

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.

Author : Kerry Powell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004-02-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521795362

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The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre by Kerry Powell Pdf

This Companion is designed for readers interested in the creation, production and interpretation of Victorian and Edwardian theatre in its own time and on the contemporary stage. The volume opens with an introduction surveying the theatre of the time, followed by an essay contextualizing the theatre within the culture as a whole. Succeeding chapters examine performance, production, and theatre, including the music, the actors, stagecraft and the audience; plays and playwriting and issues of class and gender. Chapters also deal with comedy, farce, melodrama, and the economics of the theatre.

Author : Christina Bashford
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 1846155835

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The Pursuit of High Culture by Christina Bashford Pdf

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.

Author : Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317021223

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The Player Piano and the Edwardian Novel by Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg Pdf

In her study of music-making in the Edwardian novel, Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg argues that the invention and development of the player piano had a significant effect on the perception, performance and appreciation of music during the period. In contrast to existing devices for producing music mechanically such as the phonograph and gramophone, the player piano granted its operator freedom of individual expression by permitting the performer to modify the tempo. Because the traditional piano was the undisputed altar of domestic and highly gendered music-making, Björkén-Nyberg suggests, the potential for intervention by the mechanical piano's operator had a subversive effect on traditional notions about the status of the musical work itself and about the people who were variously defined by their relationship to it. She examines works by Dorothy Richardson, E.M. Forster, Henry Handel Richardson, Max Beerbohm and Compton Mackenzie, among others, contending that Edwardian fiction with music as a subject undermined the prevalent antithesis, expressed in contemporary music literature, between a nineteenth-century conception of music as a means of transcendence and the increasing mechanisation of music as represented by the player piano. Her timely survey of the player piano in the context of Edwardian commercial and technical discourse draws on a rich array of archival materials to shed new light on the historically conditioned activity of music-making in early twentieth-century fiction.

Author : the late Russell Sanjek
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1988-07-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195364620

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American Popular Music and Its Business by the late Russell Sanjek Pdf

Volume two concentrates exclusively on music activity in the United States in the nineteenth century. Among the topics discussed are how changing technology affected the printing of music, the development of sheet music publishing, the growth of the American musical theater, popular religious music, black music (including spirituals and ragtime), music during the Civil War, and finally "music in the era of monopoly," including such subjects as copyright, changing technology and distribution, invention of the phonograph, copyright revision, and the establishment of Tin Pan Alley.

Author : Professor Sarah Hibberd
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781409494768

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Melodramatic Voices: Understanding Music Drama by Professor Sarah Hibberd Pdf

The genre of mélodrame à grand spectacle that emerged in the boulevard theatres of Paris in the 1790s - and which was quickly exported abroad - expressed the moral struggle between good and evil through a drama of heightened emotions. Physical gesture, mise en scène and music were as important in communicating meaning and passion as spoken dialogue. The premise of this volume is the idea that the melodramatic aesthetic is central to our understanding of nineteenth-century music drama, broadly defined as spoken plays with music, operas and other hybrid genres that combine music with text and/or image. This relationship is examined closely, and its evolution in the twentieth century in selected operas, musicals and films is understood as an extension of this nineteenth-century aesthetic. The book therefore develops our understanding of opera in the context of melodrama's broader influence on musical culture during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book will appeal to those interested in film studies, drama, theatre and modern languages as well as music and opera.

Author : Dave Russell
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1987-11-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780773561069

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Popular Music in England, 1840-1914 by Dave Russell Pdf

Russell's discussion reflects the broad categories of popular music activity during this period. His first section describes the musical activity generated by moral crusaders, philanthropists, educationalists, and reformers who sought to use music as a method of instilling habits of mind and body in the English working classes. The second studies the musical forms developed by entrepreneurs, particularly in the music halls. The third section focuses on the music and musical institutions produced by the community, illustrating the popular capacity for making as well as enjoying music. Perhaps most important, in this first thorough social history of popular music Russell shows how ideas and experiences gained through various forms of popular musical activity influenced popular political life.