The North American British Music Studies Association continues its online colloquium series with a talk from Georgina Bartlett (University of Oxford) on "Printing Performance and Performing Print: Theatre Music in British Broadside Ballads, 1797-1844"
Date and Time: Thursday, May 18, 2023, at 11-12 noon PT, 12 noon-1pm MT, 1-2pm CT, 2-3pm ET, and 7-8pm UK - online via Zoom
The talk is free to attend but registration is required: Register here for May 18<https://nabmsa.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bdde5e9b20627112077156e25&id=64ba34c5ca&e=e4abd376c8>.
Abstract: In the first half of the nineteenth century, the production of English broadside ballads peaked: according to contemporaneous broadside collector Charles Hindley, tens of thousands of copies of a single broadside song would be printed and sold in London when the population of the city was still less than 2 million. Despite the social and musical significance of this prolific nineteenth-century tradition, the field of musicology has had little to say about it because, from the late-eighteenth century, tune references—which were standard on earlier generations of the broadside—all but disappeared. This has made the music of the nineteenth-century broadside something of a mystery. Building on findings from a three-year research project on the subject, this paper will consider the broadside tradition's complex relationship with material and performance cultures in the early nineteenth century, exploring how the geography and sound-world of London shaped the musical evolution of this important genre of British culture and song.
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With best wishes
Dr Rebecca Thumpston
Assistant Professor of Music
Department of Music, School of Humanities
University of Nottingham
University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD
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