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 …
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