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Irish music enjoyed popularity across Europe and North America in the second half of the twentieth century. Regional circumstances created a unique reception for such music in the English Midlands. This book is a musical ethnography of Birmingham, 1950-2010. Initially establishing geographical and chronological parameters, the book cites Birmingham's location at the hub of a road and communications network as key to the development of Irish music across a series of increasingly visible, publ...

Folk music --- Ethnic music --- Traditional music --- Folklore --- Music --- History and criticism. --- Birmingham (England) --- Social life and customs. --- Birmingham, Eng. --- Birmingham (West Midlands, England) --- City and Borough of Birmingham (England) --- Borough of Birmingham (England)

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Industrial Enlightenment explores the transition through which England passed between 1760 and 1820 on the way to becoming the world's first industrialised nation. In drawing attention to the important role played by scientific knowledge, it focuses on a dimension of this transition which is often overlooked by historians. The book argues that in certain favoured regions, England underwent a process whereby useful knowledge was fused with technological 'know how' to produce the condition described here as Industrial Enlightenment. At the forefront of the process were the natural philosophers who entered into a close and productive relationship with technologists and entrepreneurs. Much of the evidence for this study is drawn from the extraordinary archival record of the activities of Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) and his Soho Manufactory. The book will appeal to those keen to explore the dynamics of change in eighteenth-century England, and to those with a broad interest in the cultural history of science and technology.

Science and industry --- Industrial revolution --- Industry and science --- Industries --- Revolution, Industrial --- Economic history --- Social history --- History. --- Birmingham (England) --- Birmingham, Eng. --- Birmingham (West Midlands, England) --- City and Borough of Birmingham (England) --- Borough of Birmingham (England) --- History --- Révolution industrielle --- Sciences et industrie --- Birmingham (Angleterre) --- Histoire --- Birmingham. --- French Revolution. --- Industrial Enlightenment. --- Napoleonic Wars. --- Soho. --- West Midlands. --- eighteenth-century Britain. --- knowledge economy. --- protestant Nonconformity. --- religious complexion. --- science cultures. --- technological process.

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This book is concerned with the eighteenth-century typographer, printer, industrialist and Enlightenment figure, John Baskerville (1707-75). Baskerville was a Birmingham inventor, entrepreneur and artist with a worldwide reputation who made eighteenth-century Birmingham a city without typographic equal, by changing the course of type design. Baskerville not only designed one of the world's most historically important typefaces, he also experimented with casting and setting type, improved the construction of the printing-press, developed a new kind of paper and refined the quality of printing inks. His typographic experiments put him ahead of his time, had an international impact and did much to enhance the printing and publishing industries of his day. Yet despite his importance, fame and influence many aspects of Baskerville's work and life remain unexplored and his contribution to the arts, industry, culture and society of the Enlightenment are largely unrecognized. Moreover, recent scholarly research in archaeology, art and design, history, literary studies and typography, is leading to a fundamental reassessment of many aspects of Baskerville's life and impact, including his birthplace, his work as an industrialist, the networks which sustained him and the reception of his printing in Britain and overseas. The last major, but inadequate publication of Baskerville dates from 1975. Now, forty years on, the time is ripe for a new book. This interdisciplinary approach provides an original contribution to printing history, eighteenth-century studies and the dissemination of ideas.

655.262 <41> --- 929 <41> "17" --- Biografie. Genealogie. Heraldiek--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799.--(eveneens voor boeken over recht periode 1789-1799) --- Boekdesign--algemeen--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 655.262 <41> Boekdesign--algemeen--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 655.262 <41> Typographic design of the text. Aesthetic questions, text division and layout, arrangement of illustrations etc.--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Typographic design of the text. Aesthetic questions, text division and layout, arrangement of illustrations etc.--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Baskerville, John --- Printing --- Early printed books --- Printers --- Type and type-founding --- History --- Baskerville, John, --- Fonts (Printing) --- Founts (Printing) --- Metal types --- Type faces --- Typefaces --- Founding --- Typesetting --- Bibliography --- Books --- Printing, Practical --- Typography --- Graphic arts --- Baskerville, Joannes, --- Baskerville, J. --- Baskerville, G. --- Birmingham (England) --- Birmingham (Angleterre) --- Histoire --- Birmingham, Eng. --- Birmingham (West Midlands, England) --- City and Borough of Birmingham (England) --- Borough of Birmingham (England)