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‘Not appreciated in Worthing?’ Class expression and popular song texts in mid-nineteenth-century Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Vic Gammon
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Recent research shows that the English folksong collectors, who were active before the First World War, systematically selected what they took down from rural working-class singers, basing their selection on what they considered to be worth preserving from such singers' repertories. Their work, then, can only give us a biased and highly mediated impression of popular singing traditions (see Harker 1972 and 1982; Gammon 1980). The purpose of this article is to see if it is possible to go beyond the work of the collectors, to try to grasp something of the wholeness of popular nineteenth-century singing traditions, and also to situate those traditions socially.

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Part 1. Performers and Audiences I
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Popular Music , Volume 4 , January 1984 , pp. 5 - 24
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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