Horgan analyses the importance of songs in British eighteenth-century culture with specific reference to their political meaning. Using an interdisciplinary met

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This volume brings together new approaches to music history to reveal the interdependence of music and religion in nineteenth-century culture. As composers and

This study offers a radical reassessment of a crucial period of political and cultural history. By looking at some 400 songs, many of which are made available t

This deeply researched collection offers a comprehensive introduction to the eighteenth-century trade in street literature – ballads, chapbooks, and popular p