Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Popular culture
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A Heritage of 20th Century British Song
Author: A Heritage of 20th Century British Song: Shepherd's holiday
Author: A Heritage of 20th Century British Song: Epitaph on Salathiel Pavy
Author: A Heritage of 20th Century British Song: How love came in
Author: A Heritage of 20th Century British Song: Love on my heart from heaven fell
Author: 20th Century Pub
Author: Jessica BoakPublisher:
ISBN: 9780957278721
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A History of 20th Century Britain
Author: Andrew MarrPublisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447219082
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1437
Book Description
Between the death of Queen Victoria and the turn of the Millennium, Britain has been utterly transformed by an extraordinary century of war and peace. A History of 20th Century Britain collects together for the first time Andrew Marr's two bestselling volumes A History of Modern Britain and The Making of Modern Britain. Together, they tell the story of how the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire only to stumble into a series of monumental upheavals, from World Wars to Cold Wars and everything in between. In each decade, political leaders thought they knew what they were doing, but found themselves confounded. Every time, the British people turned out to be stroppier and harder to herd than predicted. This wonderfully entertaining history follows all the political and economic stories, but deals too with the riotous colour of an extraordinary century: a century of trenches, flappers and Spitfires; of comedy, punks, Margaret Thatcher’s wonderful good luck, and the triumph of shopping over idealism.
The Song Index of the Enoch Pratt Free Library
Author: Ellen LuchinskyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135659265
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1384
Book Description
The Song Index features over 150,000 citations that lead users to over 2,100 song books spanning more than a century, from the 1880s to the 1990s. The songs cited represent a multitude of musical practices, cultures, and traditions, ranging from ehtnic to regional, from foreign to American, representing every type of song: popular, folk, children's, political, comic, advertising, protest, patriotic, military, and classical, as well as hymns, spirituals, ballads, arias, choral symphonies, and other larger works. This comprehensive volume also includes a bibliography of the books indexed; an index of sources from which the songs originated; and an alphabetical composer index.
Folk Song in England
Author: Steve RoudPublisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571309739
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
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 England had a vital heritage of folk song and music which was easily good enough to stand comparison with those of other parts of Britain and overseas. Cecil Sharp, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Percy Grainger, and a number of other enthusiasts gathered a huge harvest of songs and tunes which we can study and enjoy at our leisure. But after over a century of collection and discussion, publication and performance, there are still many things we don't know about traditional song - Where did the songs come from? Who sang them, where, when and why? What part did singing play in the lives of the communities in which the songs thrived? More importantly, have the pioneer collectors' restricted definitions and narrow focus hindered or helped our understanding? This is the first book for many years to investigate the wider social history of traditional song in England, and draws on a wide range of sources to answer these questions and many more.
The Lark Ascending
Author: Richard KingPublisher:
ISBN: 9780571338801
Category : Group identity
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A radical new history of Britain's natural landscapes and the musical movements they have inspired.