Dorothy 'Daisy' Cowper et al. in Toxteth, Liverpool - between late 19th Century and early 20th Century
from De Nobis, pages 44 part 1:
Itinerant singers went up and down the Mount [where the Cowper family lived], and all other streets, daily. The words they sang were almost always incoherent, but the melancholy wail they emitted droned on and on. Meanwhile, the singer’s head turned in all directions, scanning the houses to catch sight of a figure in a doorway, holding out a penny, or even a ha’penny. One singer was a very different type. She wouldn’t sing in the streets, … more >>
Dorothy 'Daisy' Cowper, De Nobis. In Burnett Archive of Working Class Autobiography, University of Brunel Library, Special Collections, number 1.182, p. 44 part 1. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1538743311620 accessed: 1 September, 2024 (By permission of University of Brunel Library, Special Collections)
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Listening to
hide composersItinerant singers' melancholy song | performed by Itinerant singers |
Experience Information
Date/Time | between late 19th Century and early 20th Century |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |