Singing the English

Singing the English explores the period from the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 to the Entente Cordiale in 1904 through the lenses of the cultural history of music and Franco-British cultural history.

Hannah L. Scott is a Research Fellow at Newcastle University, with a particular interest in the world of performance in nineteenth-century France, especially popular songs, dance culture, and street spectacles. Her first monograph, Broken glass, broken world: glass in French culture in the aftermath of 1870, was published by Legenda in 2016.

Introduction Chapter One Singing the English: At the Café-Concert Chapter Two Singing for Salvation: Music and British Evangelism in France Chapter Three Singing the Celts: British Folk Music and French Identity Chapter Four Singing in London: Dubious Music in French Travel Writing Epilogue