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Interlude III

‘The Storm’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2021

Oskar Cox Jensen
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University of East Anglia
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In the third interlude, ‘The Storm’, I examine the performance of a single song by one singer, the crippled black sailor Joseph Johnson. Taking an approach somewhat indebted to Timothy Brook’s Vermeer’s Hat, I pursue the elements bound up in Johnson’s performance right across the globe, from the Antipodes to Jamaica, from Versailles to the West End stage, placing this East End performance within an imperial narrative of cultural appropriation, assimilation, and identity formation. Johnson emerges as in many ways the epitome of the ballad-singer: a marginal figure disadvantaged by both race and injury, whose self-fashioning (based on Jamaican Jonkonnu practice) was designed to reposition himself at the heart of both metropolitan and national notions of patriotism.

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Print publication year: 2021

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  • Interlude III
  • Oskar Cox Jensen, University of East Anglia
  • Book: The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London
  • Online publication: 05 February 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108908108.007
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  • Interlude III
  • Oskar Cox Jensen, University of East Anglia
  • Book: The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London
  • Online publication: 05 February 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108908108.007
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  • Interlude III
  • Oskar Cox Jensen, University of East Anglia
  • Book: The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London
  • Online publication: 05 February 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108908108.007
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