Aspects of the Decline of English Rough Music and Effigy-burning and the Transformation of the Fifth of November in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. (3rd July 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gooderson, Philip J.
• Is Part Of: International journal of regional and local history. Volume 16:Number 2(2021)
• Page Start: 94
• Page End: 110
• Publication Date: 2021-07-03
• Subjects: folk -- rough music -- magistrate -- community -- plebeian -- police -- Guy Fawkes; Regions (Administrative and political divisions) -- History -- Periodicals; Cities and towns -- History -- Periodicals; Local government -- History -- Periodicals; Local history -- Periodicals; 900
• DOI: 10.1080/20514530.2021.1988634
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2051-4530

Abstract

ABSTRACT: One of the most important practices associated with rough music, the effigy-burning of unpopular neighbours, was still practiced widely in mid-nineteenth century England, including on the Fifth of November, or Guy Fawkes Night. But once the Fifth became transformed by new patronage, the practice of effigy-burning became the object of criticism and policing and generally declined after 1900. It had undergone a steady stream of criticism in the press and in the magistrates' courts and was by the twentieth century regarded as a cultural anachronism. Meanwhile the Fifth of November, which had always been a day of entertainment, was increasingly embraced by commercialism after 1918.