Cacophony, or, vile scrapers on vile instruments. Bad music in early modern English towns

Cockayne, Emily ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0398-642X (2002) Cacophony, or, vile scrapers on vile instruments. Bad music in early modern English towns. Urban History, 29 (1). pp. 35-47. ISSN 1469-8706

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Abstract

Drawing on contemporary musings and references from a variety of civic records, this article will consider music heard in the public spaces of urban England between the mid-sixteenth and mid-eighteenth centuries. Negative reactions to performers such as common fiddlers and street traders became increasingly common as the period progressed and were intimately connected both with fears concerning the crowd-gathering potential of such people and with a desire to control the sound environment to enable effective sleep, worship and concentration.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of History
Depositing User:	Katherine Humphries
Date Deposited:	05 Dec 2012 16:14
Last Modified:	18 Jun 2026 15:48
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/40427
DOI:	10.1017/S0963926802001049

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