Kate Bowan, Mr. Paul A. Pickering

Sounds of Liberty

Music, Radicalism and Reform in the Anglophone World, 1790-1914

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Produktbeschreibung

Focussing on radicals and reformers this book explores the role of music in transmitting political culture across the Anglophone world over time and distance. It brings to light the importance of music in the lived experience of politics of those who composed, performed and consumed it. It provides an opportunity to hear history as it happened. -- .

Produktdetails

• Studies in Imperialism
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 724g
• ISBN-13: 9780719082740
• ISBN-10: 0719082749
• Artikelnr.: 47870334

Autorenporträt

Kate Bowan is Lecturer in the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at the Australian National University Paul Pickering is Dean of the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the Australian National University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the sounds of liberty 1 Songs of the world 2 The sound of
marching feet 3 Votes for a song 4 'Sing a Song of Sixpence' 5 Music,
morals and the middle class 6 The challenges of uplift 7 'Sing of the
warriors of labour': radical religion, secularism and the hymn Conclusion:
'And they sang a new song' Index