The Cries of London: On costers, pedlars, hawkers, fishwives, tinkers and barrow boys

Macleod, Duncan

Abstract

The history of London’s markets is a noisy one, where the ambient buzz of the crowd is overlaid with the musical Cries of the people who work there. In this chapter, Duncan MacLeod reflects on the sociological and sonic history of those cries, and draws them into a lineage which culminates with his own sound piece, “The Cries of Columbia Road”.

Citation

Macleod, D. (2020). The Cries of London: On costers, pedlars, hawkers, fishwives, tinkers and barrow boys. In The political voice (28-37). London: Theatrum Mundi

• Online Publication Date: Mar 29, 2021
• Publication Date: 2020-11
• Deposit Date: Mar 14, 2023
• Pages: 28-37
• Series Title: Sonic Urbanism
• Series Number: 2
• Book Title: The political voice
• ISBN: 9781916186415
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/18520486
• Publisher URL: https://theatrum-mundi.org/library/the-cries-of-london/