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Little Slaves of the Harp : Italian Child Street Musicians in Nineteenth-Century Paris, London, and New York by John E. Zucchi (1998, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherMcGill-Queen's University Press

ISBN-100773517553

ISBN-139780773517554

eBay Product ID (ePID)707056

Product Key Features

Number of Pages248 Pages

Publication NameLittle Slaves of the Harp : Italian Child Street Musicians in Nineteenth-Century Paris, London, and New York

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1998

SubjectChildren's Studies, Ethnomusicology, General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaMusic, Social Science, History

AuthorJohn E. Zucchi

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight10.8 Oz

Item Length9.8 in

Item Width5.9 in

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Intended AudienceCollege 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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SynopsisDuring 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.