Sounds of liberty: Music, radicalism and reform in the Anglophone world, 1790–1914 PDF
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STUDIES IN IMPERIALISM GENERAL EDITOR: Andrew S. Thompson FOUNDING EDITOR: John M. MacKenzie SOUNDS OF LIBERTY SOUNDS S This book explores the role of music in the transmission of political O culture over time and distance, focusing on radicals and reformers U OF LIBERTY committed to the struggle for a better future. It follows in the footsteps N of relentlessly travelling activists – both women and men – and brings to light the importance of music-making in the lived experience of D politics. It shows how music encouraged, unified, divided, consoled S and reminded; and it helps to understand better the affective register Music, radicalism and reform in the of the political and cultural life of those who composed, performed O and consumed it. Anglophone world, 1790–1914 F Throughout the long nineteenth century the sounds of liberty resonated L across the Anglophone world: in the faint strains of ‘rough music’ I B played on the streets of Toronto and the ‘middle-brow’ performances E within the walls of a secularist coven in Christchurch; in cacophonous R election songs swirling around the hustings in Glasgow and Sunday afternoon chamber music concerts in the heart of radical Holborn; in T defiant anthems blaring slightly out of tune on picket lines in Broken Y Hill and in hymns warbled by labour church choirs in Winnipeg. The first section examines songs; the second examines music’s place in the public sphere where people – individually and collectively – made music when marching, electioneering, celebrating and B commemorating, as well as striking, rioting and rebelling. The final section explores music-making within the walls of a range of P O associations and institutions including the difficult and often destructive I W C part it played in European interaction with indigenous people. K A Kate Bowan is Lecturer in the Research School of Humanities and Arts at the Australian E N National University R Paul Pickering is Dean of the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the Australian I A National University N N G D ISBN 978-1-7190-8274-0 Cover image: Vintage World Map, 2015 © Michal Bednarek, bednarek-art.com Cover design: riverdesign.co.uk 9 780719 082740 KATE BOWAN AND www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk PAUL A. PICKERING General editor: Andrew S. Thompson Founding editor: John M. MacKenzie When the ‘Studies in Imperialism’ series was founded by Professor John M. MacKenzie more than thirty years ago, emphasis was laid upon the conviction that ‘imperialism as a cultural phenomenon had as significant an effect on the dominant as on the subordinate societies’. With well over a hundred titles now published, this remains the prime concern of the series. Cross-disciplinary work has indeed appeared covering the full spectrum of cultural phenomena, as well as examining aspects of gender and sex, frontiers and law, science and the environment, language and lit- erature, migration and patriotic societies, and much else. Moreover, the series has always wished to present compara- tive work on European and American imperialism, and par- ticularly welcomes the submission of books in these areas. The fascination with imperialism, in all its aspects, shows no sign of abating, and this series will continue to lead the way in encouraging the widest possible range of studies in the field. ‘Studies in Imperialism’ is fully organic in its development, always seeking to be at the cutting edge, responding to the latest interests of scholars and the needs of this ever-expanding area of scholarship. Sounds of liberty SELECTED TITLES AVAILABLE IN THE SERIES WRITING IMPERIAL HISTORIES ed. Andrew S. Thompson EMPIRE OF SCHOLARS Tamson Pietsch HISTORY, HERITAGE AND COLONIALISM Kynan Gentry COUNTRY HOUSES AND THE BRITISH EMPIRE Stephanie Barczewski THE RELIC STATE Pamila Gupta WE ARE NO LONGER IN FRANCE Allison Drew THE SUPPRESSION OF THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE ed. Robert Burroughs and Richard Huzzey HEROIC IMPERIALISTS IN AFRICA Berny Sèbe Sounds of liberty music, radicalism and reform in the anglophone world, 1790–1914 Kate Bowan and Paul A. Pickering MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS Copyright © Kate Bowan and Paul A. Pickering 2017 The rights of Kate Bowan and Paul A. Pickering to be identified as the authors of this work have been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Published by MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS ALTRINCHAM STREET, MANCHESTER M1 7JA www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for ISBN 978 0 7190 8274 0 hardback First published 2017 The publisher has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for any external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Typeset by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Stockport, Cheshire BOWAN 9780719082740 PRINT.indd 4 30/06/2017 09:21 For Jenny Bowan and Don Pickering CONTENTS List of figures—viii Founding editor’s introduction—x Acknowledgements—xii Introduction: The sounds of liberty 1 1 Songs of the world 32 2 The sound of marching feet 100 3 Votes for a song 140 4 ‘Sing a Song of Sixpence’ 165 5 Music, morals and the middle class 228 6 The challenges of uplift 264 7 ‘Sing of the warriors of labour’: radical religion, secularism and the hymn 294 Conclusion: ‘And they sang a new song’ 345 Index—363 [ vii ] BOWAN 9780719082740 PRINT.indd 7 30/06/2017 09:21 LIST OF FIGURES 1.1 Marche de Marseillois, chantée sur diferans theatres, published in London by William Holland, 10 November 1792. By permission of Bibliothèque nationale de France. page 44 1.2 ‘John Anderson my Jo’, James Johnson, The Scots Musical Museum, vol. 3 [1790], p. 269. By permission of the National Library of Scotland. 58 1.3 ‘Opening of St Martin’s Hall’, Illustrated London News (16 February 1850), p. 116. By permission of the National Library of Australia. 72 1.4 Title cover of John Lowry’s setting of Ernest Jones’s Song of the ‘Lower Classes’ (1856). © The British Library Board, H02/8265. 74 1.5 Opening page of John Lowry’s setting of Song of the ‘Lower Classes’ (1856). © The British Library Board, H02/8265. 76 1.6 Comparison of the openings of Lowry’s setting of Song of the ‘Lower Classes’, bars 5–8 and The Brave Old Oak (1834), bars 9–12. 78 1.7 Opening of Monks of Old (1842), bars 1–8. 79 2.1 8 Hour Day procession at Wrightville – Cobar area, NSW, 1 October 1900, W. S. Bundren, Wrightville. Call number: BCP0536. By permission of the State Library of New South Wales. 101 2.2 ‘May Day in London: on the way to Hyde Park. Drawn from life by Paul Renouard’, Graphic (9 May 1896). Original in the possession of the authors. 108 2.3 Suffragette procession, London, 1908. Reprinted with permission. © Museum of London. 110 4.1 Postcard: ‘Procession to the Gaol [Broken Hill], Sunday, Feb. 14[?] 1909’. University of Wollongong Archives, William J. Harris Collection D82/12. Reprinted with permission. 207 4.2 Postcard, inscription on reverse side: ‘Procession to the Gaol [Broken Hill], Sunday, Feb. 14[?] 1909’. University of Wollongong Archives, William J. Harris Collection D82/12. Reprinted with permission. 208 5.1 Eliza Flower, Hymn of the Polish Exiles (1833), bars 1–22. Typeset by Bradley Cummings. 237 5.2 Eliza Flower, ‘Summer, Song of the Brook’, Free Trade [ viii ] LIST OF FIGURES Songs, no. 2 (1845), bars 12–15. Typeset by Bradley Cummings. 238 5.3 Eliza Flower, ‘Autumn, Harvest Home’, Free Trade Songs, no. 3 (1845), bars 33–44. Typeset by Bradley Cummings. 239 6.1 ‘Turn Back Pharaoh’s Army’, Jubilee Songs, no. 8 in J. B. T. Marsh, The Story of the Jubilee Singers; With Their Songs (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1886), p. 132. Original in the possession of the authors. 286 7.1 Front page of The Socialist Church Hymns. By permission of Herbert Otto Roth Papers, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, NZ. 330 8.1 The Socialist (2 June 1906), p. 1. NLA MS3939 Series 11. By permission of the National Library of Australia. Photograph: Paris Lord. 346 [ ix ]
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