Awfully affecting : the development of a sentimental tradition in the lyrics of British and North American popular song

This study starts by offering an account of the multi-faceted ongins of sentimentality, and its importance as an innovative and influential cultural force. The origins of commercial popular song and the high period of sentimentalism are contiguous, and it is argued that a sentimental tradition in po...

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Main Author: Fleming, Timothy J.
Published: University of Strathclyde 1999
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.366690