The Victorian Music Hall: Culture, Class and ConflictCambridge University Press, 1996 M10 24 - 244 páginas With the exception of the occasional local case study, music-hall history has until now been presented as the history of the London halls. This book attempts to redress the balance by setting music-hall history within a national perspective. Kift also sheds a new light on the roles of managements, performers and audiences. For example, the author confutes the commonly held assumption that most women in the halls were prostitutes and shows them to have been working women accompanied by workmates of both sexes or by their families. She argues that before the 1890s the halls catered predominantly to working-class and lower middle-class audiences of men and women of all ages and were instrumental in giving them a strong and self-confident identity. The hall's ability to sustain a distinct class-awareness was one of their greatest strengths - but this factor was also at the root of many of the controversies which surrounded them. These controversies are at the centre of the book and Kift treats them as test cases for social relations which provide fresh insights into nineteenth-century British society and politics. |
Contenido
History | 17 |
The musichall programme | 36 |
The audience | 62 |
The special case of London 18401888 | 135 |
Controversies in the 1890s | 155 |
Conclusion | 175 |
Notes | 185 |
Bibliography | 215 |
237 | |
Términos y frases comunes
15 October alcohol alcohol licence amongst applications audience authorities began Bolton Chronicle Bradford Observer Bratton British campaign Canterbury century character Chartists Concert Hall conflicts controversies council Daily Telegraph dancing licences disputes drink E. P. Thompson early Early Doors elite Empire England February Glasgow granted Hennock History ibid industry institutions January Labour Leeds Leeds Express Leisure Liberal licensing laws licensing sessions lion comique London halls Londoner Music Hall magistrates major manager Manchester March middle middle-class moral MR/LMD municipal music-hall music-hall programme music-hall proprietors music-hall songs Nonetheless November October organised Palace Parliamentary Papers 1866 performers places of entertainment political Popular Culture presented prostitutes pub music halls Pullan regarded regions respect role Schneider September Sharples singing saloons Social Control Society stage Stedman Jones Surrey Surrey Music Hall teetotal teetotallers temperance movement tion took town traditional variety theatres Victorian women workers working-class culture Yorkshire Youdan