Author: Speaight, George
Title: Bawdy Songs of the Early Music Hall.
Description: Newton Abbot, London, Vancouver, David & Charles, 1075. hardcover with dust jacket. The origins of the music hall are to be found in the Song and Supper Rooms of Regency and early Victorian London. In the smoke-filled cellars of the Coal Hole, off the Strand, and similar establishments boisterous parties of young men-about-town would bellow out the choruses of favourite songs which were often bawdy parodies of popular ballads of the time. A cache of the songbooks has survived in the British Museum and a selection from them is now reprinted in this book. ISBN: 0715370138

Keywords: England, songs, Victorian music, popular music, choirs, drawing-room song, entertainment, 0715370138


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