TY - JOUR
T1 - Street music in London in the nineteenth century:
T2 - ‘Evidence’ from Charles Dickens, Charles Babbage and Lucy Broadwood
AU - Watt, Paul
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - What evidence is there that street music was widespread, problematic and immoral in nineteenth century London? This article re-examines a substantial literature that has been used to build a case or argument of the pervasive notion that street music was a curse in nineteenth-century London. Looking at a variety of sources afresh the article argues that historical evidence has often been misunderstood, misread or misconstrued in establishing historical narratives about street music in nineteenth-century London.
AB - What evidence is there that street music was widespread, problematic and immoral in nineteenth century London? This article re-examines a substantial literature that has been used to build a case or argument of the pervasive notion that street music was a curse in nineteenth-century London. Looking at a variety of sources afresh the article argues that historical evidence has often been misunderstood, misread or misconstrued in establishing historical narratives about street music in nineteenth-century London.
U2 - 10.1017/S1479409817000040
DO - 10.1017/S1479409817000040
M3 - Article
VL - 15
SP - 9
EP - 22
JO - Nineteenth-Century Music Review
JF - Nineteenth-Century Music Review
SN - 1479-4098
IS - 1
ER -