Heavy-Drinking, Sausage-Loving, Child-Neglecting Heathens: The Forgotten Hits of the Nineteenth Century and Why They Matter
The Forgotten Hits of the Nineteenth-Century What were the songs that animated the everyday life of the nineteenth-century rural European population? These were people who were certainly exposed to mass culture. From popular woodcuts to cheap books printed on coloured paper, there was no shortage of commercially-produced entertainment and news. But alongside this mass culture, […]
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