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Title: The Remunerated Vernacular Singer

The Remunerated Vernacular Singer

From Medieval England to the Post-War Revival

by Andrew C. Rouse (Author)
©2005 Monographs 212 Pages
English Studies
Series: Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes, Volume 415

Summary

This volume studies the status and reception of the professional, semi-professional and amateur singer in England from the earliest time for which records are available, the later Middle Ages, up to the present. It also offers a principled examination of their songs and why particular songs were taken into singers’ repertoires while others remained printed street ballads without ever becoming part of the oral tradition. The structure is broadly chronological, although the nature of evidence from oral and ephemeral sources makes this impossible to adhere to strictly.

Details

Pages
212
Year
2005
ISBN (Softcover)
9783631533055
Language
English
Keywords
England Folksong Sänger Geschichte Palmer, Roy Gammon, Vic Ungarn Folk-Sänger Bezahlung Ballade
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2005. 212 pp., num. fig., 2 tables

Biographical notes

Andrew C. Rouse (Author)

The Author: Andrew C. Rouse was born in Wessex. In 1979 he was offered a teaching contract at the Hungarian colleges at Pécs and Eger, and soon became involved in the Hungarian folk scene both on and off campus, and as performer and organiser. He has been lecturing at the English Department of the University of Pécs since 1982. His passion and academic profile have gradually fused over the past 15 years, and in 2004 he was awarded a Ph.D. for his research into England’s remunerated vernacular singers. Rouse has also written several related academic and disseminating papers, articles, studies and essays, which have been published in a number of countries.

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