Scripture and Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain

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Dr. James Grande (Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature, King's College London, UK) Dr. Brian H. Murray (Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature, King's College London, UK)

Scripture and Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Dr. James Grande (Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature, King's College London, UK), Dr. Brian H. Murray (Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature, King's College London, UK)

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Bloomsbury Academic USA
14 December 2023

Music; Sacred & religious music; History: specific events & topics

This volume brings together new approaches to music history to reveal the interdependence of music and religion in nineteenth-century culture. As composers and performers drew inspiration from the Bible and new historical sciences called into question the historicity of Scripture, controversies raged over the performance, publication and censorship of old and new musical forms. From oratorio to opera, from parlour song to pantomime, and from hymn to broadside, nineteenth-century Britons continually encountered elements of the biblical past in song. Both elite and popular music came to play a significant role in the formation, regulation and contestation of religious and cultural identity and were used to address questions of class, nation and race, leading to the beginnings of ethnomusicology. This richly interdisciplinary volume brings together musicologists, historians, literary and art historians and theologians to reveal points of intersection between music, religion and cultural history.

Edited by: Dr. James Grande (Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature King's College London UK), Dr. Brian H. Murray (Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature, King's College London, UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781501376375
ISBN 10: 1501376373
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 14 December 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

James Grande is Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature at King’s College London, UK. He is the author of William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England (2014) and co-editor of William Hazlitt: The Spirit of Controversy and Other Essays (2021) and Sound and Sense in British Romanticism (2023). Brian Murray is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at King’s College London, UK. He is co-editor of Travel Writing, Visual Culture and Form (2014), Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World (2017), and Chosen Peoples: The Bible, Race and Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century (2020).

Reviews for Scripture and Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Scripture and Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain is one of the most exciting and important collections in the field of 19th-century studies to come along in many a year. In response to this well-researched, path-breaking volume, everyone interested in the Victorians ought to sing out a hearty hallelujah. * Timothy Larsen, author of A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians (2011) *