Music in the West Country: Social and Cultural History Across an English Region

by Stephen Banfield

The first regional history of music in England.

Music in the West Country is the first regional history of music in England. Ranging over seven hundred years, from the minstrels, waits, and cathedral choristers of the fourteenth century to the Bristol Sound of the late twentieth, the book explores the region's soundscape, from its gateway cities of Bristol and Salisbury in the east to the Isles of Scilly in the west, and examines music-making...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783272732
• ISBN13: 9781783272730
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 476 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.4"