In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research into ’street literature’ -

For centuries, street literature was the main cheap reading material of the working classes: broadsides, chapbooks, songsters, prints, engravings, and other for

This book is a cultural history of the nineteenth-century songster: pocket-sized anthologies of song texts, usually without musical notation. It examines the mu

This book explores Victorian readers’ consumption of a wide array of reading matter. Established scholars and emerging researchers examine nineteenth-century

This collection situates the North-East within a developing nationwide account of British musical culture.