Songs and Verse of the North-East Pitmen C.1780-1844

ISBN-13: 9780854440610 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 344 str.

Nicolas Poussin; Dave Harker

Opis

This volume contains 122 carefully-edited manuscripts and printed texts written about, for, on behalf of and by pit-village men and women, accompanied by notes, indices and a bibliography. In the introduction, the editor argues that the original pit-village texts present a challenge to conventional historical accounts. It also demonstrates how they were mediated by William Daniells, the 1840s Miners' Advocate' editor, who acted as a cultural and political censor of strikers' writing; and by the mid-twentieth-century Stalinist folklorist', A.L. Lloyd, who published altered versions to fit his concept of industrial folksong'.