Summary Many new and exciting kinds of popular song emerged in the 19th century, and the contributors to this volume place the development and reception of these songs in their social and cultural context. The chapters are grouped into four parts. Part I investigates border crossings: an internationally known gondola song, popular songs in the Southern United States, the impact of American music in Germany, and Brazilian music in Europe. Part II concentrates on public and private spaces: the cabarets of Montmartre, salons in Berlin and Prague, popular songs and the church organ, and theatre songs in Portugal and Spain. Part III takes up the subject of social struggle: German protest songs, Hussitism and Czech songs, and Antebellum American popular songs. Part IV is concerned with matters of cultural identity: songs of Flanders, songs of the Russian 'Slavic spirit', urban songs in Greece after the War of Independence (1821), and rural and urban Serbian songs. Taken as a whole, the chapters reveal the importance of understanding different historical and cultural environments when investigating the subject matter, structure and meaning of 19th-century popular song. TABLE OF CONTENTS Derek B. Scott Introduction: The New Popular Songs of the Nineteenth Century Part I: Cultural Transfer Henrike Rost 'La Biondina in Gondoletta': The Transnational Success Story of a Popular Gondola Song Chloe Valenti Between Opera and Popular Song: The Transformation of 'Va pensiero' in Victorian Britain Candace Bailey Opera, Lieder, or Stephen Foster? Popular Song in the Antebellum US South Tobias Fasshauer Wenn das Banjo zittert : Americanism in Popular Songs of the Wilhelmine Era Fl via Camargo Toni The Twenty modinhas for Voice and Piano by Sigismund Neukomm and Joaquim Manoel Gago da C mara: A 'Transatlantic' Partnership Part II: Private and Public Spaces Michela Niccolai Montmartre in Its Songs: Between Caf -concert and Cabaret (c. 1860-1914) Anja Bunzel Popular Song in the (Semi-)Private Domain? Considering the Nineteenth-Century Salon within the Context of Popular Culture Eva-Maria de Oliveira Pinto Popular Songs in the Ecclesiastical Context: Discoveries in European and North American Organ Music of the 19th Century Catarina Ribeiro Braga The Portuguese Chansonnette at the End of the Nineteenth Century: The New Popular Song or a Mini-comic Scene? Mar a Encina Cortizo - Ram n Sobrino Popular Dance Songs in the 19th Century beyond the Spanish Borders: La cachucha and Las habas verdes Part III: Social Struggle David Robb Popular Protest Songs of the German Vorm rz and 1848 Revolution Viktor Velek Master Jan Hus and Hussitism as the Subject of Czech Social Songs in the First Half of the 19th Century Wojciech Bernatowicz He's Gone to Be a Soldier in the Army of the Lord : Politics in the Antebellum American Popular Song Part IV: Cultural Identity Jan Dewilde I Know a Song : Two Popular Flemish Songs about Singing a Song ine Mulvey Dialect Verse and Songwriting during the Irish Cultural Revival (1891-1922) Mirella Di Vita Pesnja e Romans: The Forms of the Russian Art Song at the Beginning of the 19th Century Avra Xepapadakou Popular Song in 19th-Century Greece Marijana Kokanovi? Markovi? Serbian Popular Song in the 19th-Century: Their Cultural and Social Role Abstracts and Biographies Index of Names