Music in North-East England, 1500-1800

Warren, Eleanor, Wyatt, Diana, Roberts, Christopher, Crosbie, Barbara, Woolley, Andrew L, Addison, Amélie, Winkler, Amanda Eubanks, Southey, Roz, Gibson, Kirsten, Carter, Stephanie

This collection situates the North-East within a developing nationwide account of British musical culture. Music in North-East England provides a wide-ranging exploration of musical life in the North-East of England during the early modern period. It contributes to a growing number of studies concerned with developing a nationwide account of British musical culture. By defining the North-East in its widest sense, the collection illuminates localised differences, distinct musical cultures in urban centres and rural locations, as well as region-wide networks, and situates regional musical life in broader national and international contexts. Music in North-East England affords new insights into aspects of musical life that have been the focus of previous studies of British musical life - such as public concerts - but also draws attention to aspects that have attracted less scholarly attention in histories of early modern British musical culture: the musical activities and tastes of non-elite consumers; interactions between art music and cheap print and popular song; music education beyond London and its satellite environs; the recovery of northern urban soundscapes; and the careers of professional musicians who have not previously been the focus of major published musicological studies.

EAN

9781783275410

Publisher

The Boydell Press

Published

16 October 2020

Pages

342