Street cries

Street cries

Street cries are the short lyrical calls of merchants hawking their products and services in open-air markets. The custom of hawking led many vendors to create custom melodic phrases. Many of these street cries were cataloged in large collections or incorporated into larger musical works, preserving them from oblivion.

Further reading

*"Plagues, Fairs, and Street Cries: Sounding out Society and Space in Early Modern London." by E Wilson - Modern Language Studies, 1995 Vol. 25, No. 3 (Summer, 1995), pp. 1-42 doi:10.2307/3195370 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0047-7729(199522)25%3A3%3C1%3APFASCS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-X JSTOR]
*Sounds of the city: the soundscape of early modern European towns" D Garrioch - Urban History, 2003 (2003), 30: 5-25 [http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0963926803001019 abstract]
*"Images of the outcast : the urban poor in the Cries of London" by Sean Shesgreen New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2002. ISBN 0813531519

ee also

*Hot Cross Buns


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