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, Gareth Stedman Jones criticizes simplistic views in his article 'Class Expression versus Social Control?, History Workshop Journal, vol.4, 1977.

J. Harding, G. Robey, . The-music, and . Hall, , p.16, 1990.

D. Russell, , p.83, 1988.

, Histories of 'white-collar' trade unions of the time give ample evidence of this. See for example William Richardson, A Union of Many Trades -the History of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers, 1979.

C. Macinnes, Sweet Saturday night -Pop song, vol.1840, p.34, 1967.

S. Sassoon, The Old Huntsman and Other Poems, 1918.

J. B. Priestley, Margin Released --a Writer's Reminiscences and Reflections, 1962.

, A Culture of Consolation?, Historical Research, vol.74, p.22, 2001.

J. Mullen, The Show Must Go On! Popular Song in Britain during the First World War, 2015.
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01812786

D. Francis, , 1915.

, Research carried out on the sheet music catalogue of the British Library

, Excellent German overstrung instruments cost about £30' Cyril Ehrlich, The piano --a history, p.107, 1976.

M. Moynihan, God on Our Side -the British Padre in World War One, p.15, 1983.

, Anti-Social Behaviour" and the Music Hall, 1880-1900', in Anti-Social Behaviour in Britain, Victorian and Contemporary Perspectives, 2014.

, The Encore, vol.7, 1915.

C. Macinnes, Sweet Saturday night -Pop song, vol.1840, p.34, 1967.

, See for example George Formby Senior 'since I had a Row with the Wife, 1917.

T. Cummins and K. , The Hound of Conscience: a History of the No-conscription Fellowship, p.114, 1914.

, A, 1918.

, A quick count of the first three sections (A-C) of Kilgarriff's list of lyricists and composers 1860-1920 gives a list of 251 men and 28 women. Michael Kilgarriff, Sing Us One of the Old Songs -a Guide to Popular Song, 1999.

E. Roberts and . Woman, Catherine-Émilie Corvisy and Véronique Molinari, Les femmes dans l'Angleterre victorienne et édouardienne: entre sphère privée et sphère publique, p.55, 1984.

, These songs and others by George Formby Senior can, 2017.

, The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps

, The example of a woman who took over her father's role delivering meat can be, p.195, 1999.

P. Tagg, chapter 1. My thanks to the group of friends and colleagues who listened to the songs and commented on the use of voice. In the absence of available Edwardians, they were very helpful: I have used some of their comments in my text, Music's Meanings, 2012.

, in Dublin, the Coliseum, a brand-new variety theatre with 3 000 seats, opened, 1915.

O. Tagg, , p.451

, This does mean that from a thematic point of view, the sample is not representative. Most world war one songs available online speak of the war, whereas during the war itself, three quarters of music hall songs dealt with other themes

J. Horne, A Companion to World War I, p.411, 2012.

, According to the centenary section of the UK parliament's official website, 0200.

C. Mullen,

, Katy Perry's song 'I kissed a Girl' which both described this supposedly daring experience while reassuring the audience of the narrator's heterosexual credentials is a twenty first century example of this moderate transgression

S. Maitland and V. Tilley, , p.58, 1986.