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Regan Susan O: Music and Society in Cork, 1700-1900 [2018] hardback ZPRAR A driver waiting at theThis book presents, for the first time, an in depth and wide ranging study of public musical life in Cork from the early eighteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century. The city's strategic location facilitated rapid economic growth during the eighteenth century, and urban social patterns consolidated within its mercantile communities. Local professionals collaborated with touring performers in sustaining a vibrant concert life, to which