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Conviviality [ Eating & Drinking / Rituals & Ceremonies / Character / Social interaction ]

… > Rituals & Ceremonies Concepts > Character Concepts > Social interaction Keywords Conviviality Toasting Speech-making Song Mirth Hilarity Mutuality Pleasure Conviviality was a term used to describe a particular form of masculine sociable … ‘  who would lead the proceedings, calling on ‘ stewards ‘  and pre-appointed guests to give speeches, toasts and sing songs. Meetings could vary in their formality but as the culture of conviviality matured, reaching its peak in the 1780s and early 1790s, these could be highly structured events, with both toasts and songs pre-arranged and sometimes printed in advance, forming a secular order of service to the convivial occasion. 3 1 . …

Electoral sociability [ Politics & Society ]

… & sons, 1870), p. 721-2. At election feasts or drinking sessions, election ballads (available since the Restoration) and songs were produced to catch the mood and enhance sociability (and hence also solidarity) among a group of voters. By the mid-eighteenth century printed collections of such songs, together with poems and other electoral ephemera (such as candidates’ advertisements about electoral meetings), … of one early miscellany, relating to a York election, called his work ‘an Election Opera’, in emulation of recent ‘sing-song plays’ such as Gay’s Beggar’s Opera . 7 Yet such print could also veer into impoliteness and divisiveness. A 1786 …

Musical evenings (Dr Burney's) [ Dance, Music & Songs / Sports & Leisure ]

… and women, musicians as well as visitors, participated on an equal footing with the men. Practices > Dance, Music & Songs Places > Sports & Leisure Keywords Conversation Music Salon Artist Dr. Burney Among those who visited the Sunday … of us excessively eager to hear her sing, but as it was not convenient to offer her the Pantheon-price of 50 Guineas a song, we were rather fearful of asking that favour’. In June, though, ‘She came before 7 – & stayed until 12, & was …

Edinburgh clubs and societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]

… were not heard. Women’s discussions took place in drawing rooms. Alison Rutherford Cockburn (1713-1794), a poet and song writer, and Lady Elizabeth Hamilton (1758-1816), an essayist and novelist, for instance, were very famous in town … this promotion signified to a certain extent the end of Gaelic and, more generally, the end of Scottish heritage. Songs and play writers, as well as novelists (i.e. Robert Burns) advocated the promotion, of the Scottish Gaelic language …

Masquerades in London [ Dance, Music & Songs / Social interaction ]

… a sociable performance of anonymity and new ‘selves’ in the traditions of Locke and Hume. Practices > Dance, Music & Songs Concepts > Social interaction Keywords Masquerade mask personal identity Haymarket John James Heidegger Theresa …

West End of London [ Cities / Institutions ]

… and drinking. Hence masculine society high and low was based around the tavern, generating a sociability based around song and obscenity. Wealthier men also met in coffee houses. The best known included the Grecian off the Strand and … he knew well. Protagonists could enter exclusive institutions such as the King's Theatre but also slum it in the song and supper rooms of Covent Garden. By the beginning of the nineteenth century, it was clear that the West End was …