From Mummers to Madness

From Mummers to Madness: A Social History of Popular Music in England, c.1770s to c.1970s

David Taylor

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Professor Taylor is a social historian who for many years taught at the polytechnics, later universities, of Teesside and Huddersfield and, more recently, at the Huddersfield & District University of the Third Age. He is best known for his publications on crime and policing, most recently Beerhouses, Brothels and Bobbies: Policing by Consent in Huddersfield and the Huddersfield District in the mid-nineteenth century but has a long-standing professional interest in popular leisure in general and popular music in particular, lecturing on the subject to a wide range of audiences. In addition, he has a life-long personal engagement with a range of popular music from music-hall and folksong to rock n roll and reggae. From Mummers to Madness considers developments in the production and consumption of popular music in England over a period of some two hundred years, which saw dramatic changes in the socio-economic, demographic and cultural life of the country. Popular music, it is argued, was not simply a response to the wider developments that were taking place but contributed to the ongoing process of adaptation and change.

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Professor Taylor is a social historian who for many years taught at the polytechnics, later universities, of Teesside and Huddersfield and, more recently, at the Huddersfield & District University of the Third Age. He is best known for his publications on crime and policing, most recently Beerhouses, Brothels and Bobbies: Policing by Consent in Huddersfield and the Huddersfield District in the mid-nineteenth century but has a long-standing professional interest in popular leisure in general and popular music in particular, lecturing on the subject to a wide range of audiences.

In addition, he has a life-long personal engagement with a range of popular music from music-hall and folksong to rock n roll and reggae. From Mummers to Madness considers developments in the production and consumption of popular music in England over a period of some two hundred years, which saw dramatic changes in the socio-economic, demographic and cultural life of the country. Popular music, it is argued, was not simply a response to the wider developments that were taking place but contributed to the ongoing process of adaptation and change.

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Published	Published By	Pages	ISBN	DOI	Chapters
Aug. 30, 2021	University of Huddersfield Press	452	978-1-86218-193-9	10.5920/mummers	24
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Text © David Taylor 2021 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Images © as attributed. Every effort has been made to locate copyright holders of materials included and to obtain permission for their publication. The publisher is not responsible for the continued existence and accuracy of websites referenced in the text.
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Taylor D. 2021. From Mummers to Madness: A Social History of Popular Music in England, c.1770s to c.1970s

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From Mummers to Madness: A Social History of Popular Music in England, c.1770s to c.1970s

David Taylor

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