Social and Political History: Themes and Contexts
- The Licensing Act of 1737 and Censorship, 1737-1868
- Copyright law and piracy of music
- Musical settings of Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads and changing attitudes towards British soldiers
Social and Political History: Matters of Economic and Social Class
- Music and social class in Victorian London
- Late-Victorian devaluation of performance by middle-class women and working-class bands and choruses
- "Home Sweet Home," class, and audience
- Class division in the audience for opera
- The piano and middle-class prosperity
- Class politics and the minstrel show
- Working-class appropriation of bourgeois song
- Ticket prices used to produce class hierarchy of concerts
Nationalism
- England or Britain, English or British
- The music hall an arena for negotiation between working-class and middle-class values.
- "Macdermott's War Song" and the word "jingoism"
- Songs of the Crimean War
- The 1890s folksong movement and construction of Englishness
- The folksong movement and drawing-room ballads
- Irish Nationalism, British Imperialism, and Popular Son
- Folk music becomes national music aligned it with bourgeois rather than lower class aspirations and identity
Imperialism
- Stages of Victorian imperialism and popular music
- Songs of anti-imperialism — Cobden and the Manchester School
Victorian music, race, and ethnicity
Last modified 1 March 2017