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2 - American Secular Songsters in the Nineteenth Century: An Overview

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. 11 - 31
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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References

Songsters Referred To in the Text

Book of Words of the Hutchinson Family. New York: Baker, Godwin & Co., Steam Printers, 1851.Google Scholar
Christy’s Plantation Melodies. No. 4. Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and Baltimore: Fisher & Brother, 1854.Google Scholar
Forget Me Not Songster. New York: Nafis & Cornish, n.d.Google Scholar
Grigg’s Southern and Western Songster: Being a Choice Collection of the Most Fashionable Songs. Many of Which Are Original. Philadelphia: Grigg & Elliot, 1834.Google Scholar
Merchant’s Gargling Oil Dream Fate Calendar Songster. [n.p, n.d., prob. Buffalo, NY, ca 1890.]Google Scholar
Put’s Golden Songster. San Francisco: D[avid] E. Appleton & Co., 1858.Google Scholar
Put’s Original California Songster (4th edn.). San Francisco: D[avid] E. Appleton & Co., 1868 (copyrighted 1854 by John A. Stone).Google Scholar

References

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Cohen, Norm. A Finding List of American Secular Songsters Published Between 1860 and 1899. Murfreesboro, TN: Center for Popular Music, 2000.Google Scholar
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Evening Express, September (c. 10th), 1866. Title obscured.Google Scholar
Everett, William. ‘Critical notices: Beadle’s dime books. – novels and library of fiction; biographies; song-books; &c.; &c. … New York, 1859–1864’, North American Review (July 1864): 303–9.Google Scholar
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Keller, Robert. Early American Songsters, 1734–1820. Annapolis, MD: Colonial Music Institute, 2009.Google Scholar
Laws, G. Malcolm. American Balladry from British Broadsides: A Guide for Students and Collectors of Traditional Song. Philadelphia: American Folklore Society, PAFS Vol. VIII, 1957.Google Scholar
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Lowens, Irving. A Bibliography of Songsters Printed in America Before 1821. Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1976.Google Scholar
Lowens, Irving. Music and Musicians in Early America. New York: W.W. Norton, 1964.Google Scholar
Lowens, Irving. ‘The songster and the scholar’, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 76/1 (April 1966): 5970.Google Scholar
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Thomas, Isaiah. The History of Printing in America with a Biography of Printers, and an Account of Newspapers. Albany, NY: J. Munsell, 1874.Google Scholar
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Online Resources

Database compiled and maintained by Steve Roud and available on the website of the [Ralph] Vaughan Williams Memorial Library [www.vwml.org].

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