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3 - The Prefaces to Songsters: The Law, Aesthetics, Performers and Their Reputations

from Part 1 - Production, Function and Commerce

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 April 2017

Paul Watt
Affiliation:
Monash University, Victoria
Derek B. Scott
Affiliation:
University of Leeds
Patrick Spedding
Affiliation:
Monash University, Victoria
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Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth Century
A Cultural History of the Songster
, pp. 32 - 46
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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Songsters Referred To in the Text

Burton, William E. (ed.). Burton’s Comic Songster: Being entirely a new collection of original and popular songs. Pittsburgh, PA: James Kay Jun and Brother, 1837.Google Scholar
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A Collection of Songs: Selected from the works of Mr. Dibdin. London: Printed for the author and sold by him, 1790.Google Scholar
The Convivial Songster: Being a select collection of the best songs in the English language; humourous, satirical, bacchanalian, &c, &c, &c, with music prefixed to each song. London: John Fielding, 1782.Google Scholar
The Goldfinch, or, New Modern Songster: Being a select collection of the most admired and favourite Scots and English songs, cantatas, etc. Glasgow: J. & M. Robertson, c. 1830.Google Scholar
Grigg’s Southern and Western Songster: Being a choice collection of the most fashionable songs, many of which are original. New and enlarged edn. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, & Co., 1851.Google Scholar
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