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Little Slaves of the Harp: Italian Child Street Musicians | John E. Zucchi
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- Good
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- ISBN
- 9780773517554
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
ISBN-10
0773517553
ISBN-13
9780773517554
eBay Product ID (ePID)
707056
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
248 Pages
Publication Name
Little Slaves of the Harp : Italian Child Street Musicians in Nineteenth-Century Paris, London, and New York
Language
English
Publication Year
1998
Subject
Children's Studies, Ethnomusicology, General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Music, Social Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
10.8 Oz
Item Length
9.8 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
Reviews
"This extremely interesting, unusual study, enlivened by photographs, throws a floodlight on ethnic prejudice, cultural constructs of childhood, Tammany Hall politics and 19th-century immigration and working conditions." Publishers Weekly "[Zucchi's] excellent monograph is a model evocation of a forgotten group." John Rosselli, Times Literary Supplement
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Yes
Synopsis
During the nineteenth century child musicians could be seen performing in the streets of cities across Europe and North America. Although they came from a number of countries, Italians were most associated with street music. In The Little Slaves of the Harp John Zucchi tells the story of the thousands of Italian children who were indentured to padrone and then uprooted from their villages in central and southern Italy and taken to Paris, London, and New York to perform as barrel-organists, harpists, violinists, fifers, pipers, and animal exhibitors., The padrone were often known to the families of the children or were from the same villages. While some were cruel exploiters who compelled obedience through terror and abuse - a view promoted by a few, well-publicized cases - the lot of most of these children was similar to that of child apprentices and helpers in other trades. Public reactions to the child performers were different in each city and reflected the host society's view of the influx of foreign immigrants in general. Although England, France, and the United States developed legislation in the mid-nineteenth century to deal with children in factories, they did not attempt to regulate children in street trades until later in the century because they saw the work as a form of begging. The battle to get Italian child musicians off the street dragged on for years before legislation and new work opportunities - often as onerous as or worse than street performing - directed the children into new trades.
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