Singing at Work and the Work of Songs in the Long Nineteenth-Century
10.30 Coffee
11.00 Introduction (Éva Guillorel, Caen University)
11.15 Lacemakers and Old Songs in the Nineteenth Century: A Pan-European Work Culture (David Hopkin, Herford College) – Song Types and Singing in a British Oral History. Autobiography: Repertoire and Performance in George Hewins, “The Dillen” (1981), (Timothy Ashplant, KCL)
12:45 Lunch
14:00 Singers and poètes-ouvriers; The Representations of the Working World in France (1817-1871), (Philippe Darriulat, Lille University) – Intoning Proletarian Nations: Socialist Workers’Song in Habsburg Austria, 1868-1918, (Jakub Beneš, University College)
15:30 Coffee
15:45 Industrialisation and Silencing: Placing the Death of Singing at Work Cultures at the Centre of the Narrative of the Decline on Singing in Britain, (Marek Korczynski, Nottingham University)
16:30 Et tout finit par des chansons… (Robert Bouthillier, Caen University)
Date:
20 May 2016, 10:30 (Friday, 4th week, Trinity 2016)
Venue:
Maison Française Library, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Speakers:
Éva Guillorel (Caen University),
David Hopkin (Herford College),
Timothy Ashplant (KCL),
Philippe Darriulat (Lille University),
Jakub Beneš (University College),
Marek Korczynski (Nottingham University),
Robert Bouthillier (Caen University)
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Laura Spence
