Music Hall: Performance and Style
Published in October 1986
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-335-15277-3 (ISBN)
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Milton Keynes
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 150 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-335-15277-3 (9780335152773)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Music in the halls; Jones and the working girl - class marginality in Music Hall song 1860-1900; Champagne Charlie - performance and ideology in the Music Hall Swell Song; white skin, black masks -"nigger" minstrelsy in Victorian Britain; Jenny Hill - sex and sexism in Victorian music hall; Joe Wilson - "comic dialectical singer" or class traitor? "harmless nonsense" - the comic sketch and the development of music hall entertainment. Notes.