Christopher Page

The Guitar in Victorian England

A Social and Musical History

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Produktbeschreibung

The guitar could be taken anywhere: a boat, a village hall, a workhouse. Its social and musical history therefore touches upon many aspects of Victorian life such as the growth of leisure activities, the rise of music hall, parish entertainments for good causes and the freedoms newly enjoyed by women.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316511800
• ISBN-10: 1316511804
• Artikelnr.: 73533507

Autorenporträt

Christopher Page is Emeritus Professor of English in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of the British Academy. He writes on the social and musical life of the guitar in England from the 1500s onwards. The Guitar in Tudor England (Cambridge, 2015) won the Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize of the American Musical Instrument Society in 2017.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of musical examples
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. A Victorian Conspectus
2. Guitar players and their repertoires to the 1860s
3. The book of acts
4. New opportunities from the 1860s onwards: penny readings and Amateur concerts
5. Madame Catharina Josepha Pratten and others
6. The guitarists of the streets
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Bibliography.