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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.

Table of Contents

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

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 10/08/2017
      ISBN13: 9780719082740, 978-0719082740
      ISBN10: 0719082749

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents

      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

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