Whitney Thompson - Claribel: Ballads and Birth of Modern Music Industry (Nerd Nite London 17 May 23)

Описание: Before there was Tin Pan Alley, there was Claribel. The biggest popular-music sensation of 1860s England, Charlotte Alington Barnard published over 100 songs under that Tennyson-inspired pseudonym between 1859 and her death in 1869. Her usual genre of choice was the "drawing-room" ballad -- but thanks to some savvy business moves from her music publisher John Boosey and the contralto Charlotte Sainton-Dolby, Claribel's music broke out of the drawing room's confines and became a mainstay of public entertainment. Her songs were furiously encored at concerts, the sheet music sold like hotcakes, and (of course) a few snobbish music critics in the London press did everything in their power to dismiss her work and her success. Claribel is relatively obscure now, but in this presentation you'll learn how this one woman and her hundred-plus songs revolutionized the music business and paved the way for the global music industry we have today.

For over four years, Whitney Thompson worked as a music cataloguer and copyright researcher for the digital sheet music company Musicnotes. Now she's a newly minted librarian, but she still likes to call herself a "professional music detective." In her vanishingly rare free time, she plays capoeira, annoys her two cats, and comes up with new and exciting ways to overstuff her schedule.

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Recording from 17 May 2023 Nerd Nite London show and Livestream from the Backyard Comedy Club. Introduced by Ivi.

00:00 Talk
30:35 Q&A