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In 1903, the Victorian composer Cecil Sharp began a decade-long journey to collect folk songs that, he believed, captured the spirit of Great Britain. A century
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Bringing together diverse scholars to represent the full historical breadth of the early modern period, and a wide range of disciplines (literature, women's stu
Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America
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Folk Song in England
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In Victorian times, England was famously dubbed the land without music - but one of the great musical discoveries of the early twentieth century was that Englan
The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London
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For three centuries, ballad-singers thrived at the heart of life in London. One of history's great paradoxes, they were routinely disparaged and persecuted, liv