Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth Century - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iii

Contents

pp iv-v

Figures

pp vi-vii

Tables

pp viii-ix

Contributors

pp x-xiii

Acknowledgements

pp xiv-xiv

1 - The Nineteenth-Century Songster: Recovering a Lost Musical Artefact

pp 1-8

Part 1 - Production, Function and Commerce

pp 9-70

2 - American Secular Songsters in the Nineteenth Century: An Overview

pp 11-31

3 - The Prefaces to Songsters: The Law, Aesthetics, Performers and Their Reputations

pp 32-46

4 - The Genesis of Thomas Moore’s Irish Melodies, 1808–1834

pp 47-70

Part 2 - Politics

pp 71-158

5 - The US Presidential Campaign Songster, 1840–1900

pp 73-90

6 - Friendship, Cosmopolitan Connections and Late Victorian Socialist Songbook Culture

pp 91-111

7 - ‘Confound Their Politics’: The Political Uses of ‘God Save the King-Queen’

pp 112-137

8 - Charles Robert Thatcher’s Songsters: Politics on the Goldfields of Victoria, Australia

pp 138-158

Part 3 - Nation, Place and Purpose

pp 159-241

9 - Rethinking the Songster and National-Cosmopolitan Identity in Lowland Scotland, c. 1787–1830

pp 161-183

10 - The Blackface Songster in Britain

pp 184-204

11 - Popular Songsters and the British Military: The Case of ‘The Girl I Left Behind Me’

pp 205-222

12 - Australian Songsters and the Australian Folk Song Movement

pp 223-241

Index

pp 242-250