From Mummers to Madness considers developments in the production and consumption of popular music in England over a period of some two hundred years, which saw dramatic changes in the socio-economic, demographic and cultural life of the country. Popular music, it is argued, was not simply a response to the wider developments that were taking place but contributed to the ongoing process of adaptation and change.
ISBN: | 9781862181922 |
Publication date: | 30th August 2021 |
Author: | David Taylor |
Publisher: | University of Huddersfield Press an imprint of University of Huddersfield |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 452 pages |
Genres: |
Theory of music and musicology Popular music Musicians, singers, bands and groups Composers and songwriters Social and cultural history |