This podcast presents a conversation between Dr Joe Lockwood (Newcastle University) and Professor Ellen T. Harris (MIT) exploring the tradition of standing up for the famous 'Hallelujah!' chorus in G. F. Handel's oratorio Messiah in America. The tradition's origins and political resonances in eighteenth-century Britain are set alongside its history in Boston, Massachusetts, from the time of the American Revolution to the present day.
Dr Joe Lockwood is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellow