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Hardcover The Sound of History: Songs and Social Comment Book

ISBN: 0192158902

ISBN13: 9780192158901

The Sound of History: Songs and Social Comment

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Part anthology, part social history, this book explores the relationship between popular song and the events in Britain over the last 400 years that rise to it. On subjects as diverse as crime, war, love, disarmament, politics, and industry, song has always been a vehicle for the expression of popular feeling, often as the voice of the minority or oppressed. Concentrating on the overlapping categories of oral songs, street ballads, and the work of...

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