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>From: "Jason M. Kelly" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: drinking songs
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>From: Peter B Park <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: drinking songs
>Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:03:58 +0100
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> > I'm doing a research project with my class on drinking in the eighteenth
> > century.  We're looking at published texts of drinking  songs [I assume he
> > means British ones!] but need some context.  Who  sang these 
> songs?  Did they
> > sing them in pubs, taverns, at home, at  outdoor gardens?  Were they
> > class-specific?  Do you know of any work  on pubs or drinking or drinking
> > songs?
>
>What is a "drinking song"? A song that is sung while drinking or a song
>about drink and drinking?
>
>The British Record label Topic, who specialise on folk music, have a CD
>"They ordered their pints of beer & bottles of sherry: the joys and curse of
>drink" (TSCD 663) which might bring a class to life.
>
>Peter Park,
>Independent Researcher
>Walton on Thames, UK.