Introduction: The new popular songs of the nineteenth century / Derek B. Scott -- 'La Biondina in Gondoletta': the transnational success story of a popular gondola song / Henrike Rost -- Between opera and popular song: the transformation of 'Va pensiero' in Victorian Britain / Chloe Valenti -- Opera, lieder, or Stephen Foster?: popular song in the antebellum US South / Candace Bailey -- "Wenn das Banjo zittert": Americanism in popular songs of the Wilhelmine era / Tobias Fasshauer -- The twenty modinhas for voice and piano by Sigismund Neukomm and Joaquim Manoel Gago da Câmara: a 'transatlantic' partnership / Flávia Camargo Toni -- Montmartre in its songs: between café-concert and cabaret (c. 1860-1914) / Michela Niccolai -- Popular song in the (semi-)private domain?: considering the nineteenth-century salon within the context of popular culture / Anja Bunzel -- Popular songs in the ecclesiastlcal context: discoveries in European and North American organ music of the 19th century / Eva-Maria de Oliveira Pinto -- The Portuguese chansonnette at the end of the nineteenth century: the new popular song or a mini-comic scene? / Catarina Ribeiro Braga -- Popular dance songs in the 19th century beyond the Spanish borders: La cachucha and Las habas verdes / María Encina Cortizo, Ramon Sobrino -- Popular protest songs of the German Vormärz and 1848 revolution / David Robb -- Master Jan Hus and Hussitism as the subject of Czech social songs in the first half of the 19th century / Viktor Velek -- "He's gone to be a soldier in the army of the Lord": politics in the antebellum American popular song / Wojciech Bernatowicz -- "I know a song": two popular Flemish songs about singing a song / Jan Dewilde -- Dialect verse and songwriting during the Irish cultural revival (1891-1922) / Áine Mulvey -- Pesnja e Romans: the forms of the Russian art song at the beginning of the 19th century / Mirella Di Vita -- Popular song in 19th-century Greece / Avra Xepapadakou -- Serbian popular song in the 19th-century: their cultural and sociaI role / Marijana Kokanović Marković.
Summary:
"Many new and exciting kinds of popular song emerged in the 19th century, and the contributors to this volume place the development and reception of these songs in their social and cultural context. The chapters are grouped into four parts. Part I investigates border crossings: an internationally known gondola song, popular songs in the Southern United States, the impact of American music in Germany, and Brazilian music in Europe. Part II concentrates on public and private spaces: the cabarets of Montmartre, salons in Berlin and Prague, popular songs and the church organ, and theatre songs in Portugal and Spain. Part III takes up the subject of social struggle: German protest songs, Hussitism and Czech songs, and Antebellum American popular songs. Part IV is concerned with matters of cultural identity: songs of Flanders, songs of the Russian 'Slavic spirit', urban songs in Greece after the War of Independence (1821), and rural and urban Serbian songs. Taken as a whole, the chapters reveal the importance of understanding different historical and cultural environments when investigating the subject matter, structure and meaning of 19th-century popular song"--Publisher.
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