Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
The Publishers Weekly
Author: The Title-slip Registry
Author: A Wilkie Collins Songbook
Author: Allan W. AtlasPublisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 1987208366
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
A Wilkie Collins Songbook consists of twenty-seven “everyday pieces” (three of them in two different versions each) that either appear in the novels and short stories of the Victorian author Wilkie Collins (1824–89) or were inspired by them. There is an overture for a stage production on which Collins collaborated with Charles Dickens; a number of pieces that reflect the popularity of The Woman in White (1860), which rocketed Collins to superstardom; and, forming the heart of the anthology, twenty ballads, patriotic songs, and traditional tunes that would have been well known to Collins's English (and American) readers. Among the twenty-two composers represented are: Francesco Berger (a regular at Dickens’s Sunday-evening card games); the prolific Walter Burnot, whose business card read “Songs Written While You Wait”; Charles Dibdin, and John Davy, as well as four women: Frances Arkwright, Clara Angela Macirone, Virtue Millard, and the mysterious American called “The Veiled Lady.” In all, the songbook provides an informative and entertaining romp through the everyday music of “Wilkie’s World.”
Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter
Author: S. OliverPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230555004
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter is an innovative study of Scott's and Byron's poetical engagement with borders (actual and metaphorical) and the people living on and around them. The author discusses Scott's edited collection of Border Ballads, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border and his narrative poetry, and Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage , cantos 1 and 2, his Eastern Tales, and his late, utopian South-Sea poem The Island. This fascinating study provides a detailed exegesis of the importance of borders to these leading poets and the public, during the early years of the Nineteenth-Century, with an emphasis on reciprocal literary influences, and on attitudes towards cultural instability.
N-Z, pages 803-1,110
Author: Brooklyn LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Songs, odes, and other poems, on national subjects. Compiled from various sources by Wm. McCarty
Author: William MACCARTYCatalogue of the Mercantile Library of Brooklyn: N-Z
Author: Mercantile Library Association of BrooklynPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Songs of the Civil War
Author: Irwin SilberPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486284387
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Reprint. Originally published: New York: Columbia University Press, 1960.
Sounding Dissent
Author: Stephen MillarPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472126733
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The signing of the Good Friday Agreement on April 10, 1998, marked the beginning of a new era of peace and stability in Northern Ireland. As the public overwhelmingly rejected a return to the violence of the Troubles, loyalist and republican groups sought other outlets to continue their struggle. Music, which has long been used to celebrate cultural identity in the North of Ireland, became a key means of facilitating the continuation of pre-Agreement identity narratives in a “post-conflict” era. Sounding Dissent draws on three years of sustained fieldwork within Belfast's rebel music scene, in-depth interviews with republican musicians, contemporary audiences, and former paramilitaries, as well as diverse historical and archival material, including songbooks, prison records, and newspaper articles, to understand the history of political violence in Ireland.The book examines the potential of rebel songs to memorialize a pantheon of republican martyrs, and demonstrates how musical performance and political song not only articulate experiences and memories of oppression and violence, but also play a central role in the reproduction of conflict and exclusion in times of peace.
Author: William McCarty