Bawdy Songbooks of the Romantic Period
Format:Set / collection
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:1st Sep '11
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
The songbooks of the 1830-40s were printed in tiny numbers, and small format so they could be hidden in a pocket, passed round or thrown away.
Collectors have sought ‘these priceless chapbooks’, but only recently a collection of 49 songbooks has come to light. This collection represents almost all of the known songbooks from the period.
'The editors of these volumes represent some of the most authoritative voices on nineteenth-century popular music. [The edition] invites a wealth of further scholarship not only on this particular collection of ephemera in the British Library, but also on its cultural context and issues of performativity.' Journal of the American Musicological Society
ISBN: 9781848930292
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 3628g
1952 pages