Revisiting the Popular in Music History

Introduction PART 1: POPULAR MUSIC AND CULTURAL HISTORY 1. Why the Cultural History of Music Matters 2. Occidentalism, Auto-Orientalism, and Global Fusion in Music 3. Imagining the Balkans, Imagining Europe: The Eurovision Song Contest 4. Irish Nationalism, British Imperialism, and Popular Song PART 2: THE CONTESTED POPULAR 5. Invention and Interpretation in Popular Music Historiography 6. Policing the Boundaries of Art and Entertainment 7. John Clare and Folksong PART 3: POPULAR MUSIC AND MORAL PROPRIETY 8. Bawdy Songbooks of the 1830s 9. Music, Morality, and Rational Amusement in the Victorian Soirée 10. Dance Bands and Moral Propriety in 1920s Britain PART 4: POPULAR MUSIC AND THE STAGE 11. Johann Strauss Jr and Nineteenth-Century Operetta as Intermedial Art World 12. Comic Style and Character Psychology in the Music of Arthur Sullivan 13. Gilbert and Sullivan and Delicate Sexual Matters 14. Music Hall: Regulations and Behaviour in a British Cultural Institution 15. British Musical Comedy in the 1890s: Modernity Without Modernism Bibliography