1600 to 1900
Vic Gammon
Paperback · Routledge · 2016
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Vic Gammon reads three centuries of English popular song for what it says about sex, drink, death and the lives of the people who sang it. A scholarly book that never forgets the songs were made to be sung, full of broadsides, parish records and singers’ own words.
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