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Bawdy Songs of the Early Music Hall
"Here are the words and music of the randy and ribald rhymes that were the favourites of the Regency bucks in the good old days before they made music hall respectable. From a treasure trove of Regency songbooks, hidden away in the British Museum, George Speaight has assembled this collection of the bawdy ballads of the 1830s."--back cover.
The Erotic Muse
If you've ever wanted to know the "correct" words to "Roll Me Over," or wondered where the melody of "Sweet Betsy from Pike" came from, this book can answer your questions. Extensively revised and including forty more songs than its predecessor, this new edition of The Erotic Muse is a unique scholarly collection of bawdy or forbidden American folksongs. Ed Cray presents the full texts of some 125 songs, with melodies for most of them and detailed annotations for all. His lively commentary places the songs in historical, social, and, where appropriate, psychological context.
The Erotic Muse
If you've ever wanted to know the correct words to Roll Me Over, or wondered where the melody of The Hootchie Kootchie Song came from, this book can answer your questions. Extensively revised, this new edition of The Erotic Muse presents the full texts of some 125 songs, with melodies for most of them and detailed annotations for all. -Capturing the kick and stir of history as it unfolded, American Datelines reveals the courage, hope, and grit of the American experience as chronicled in the headlines of the nation's public press from the earliest issue of The Boston News-Letter to the major newspapers of today. The original articles in this compelling collection are arranged chronologically ...
Bawdy Ballads
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