Scotland and the music hall, 18501914

By: Paul Maloney, Jeffrey Richards (Editor)

Write A Review

Paperback | 29 May 2003

At a Glance

Paperback
256 Pages

Dimensions(cm)
23.4 x 15.6 x 1.3

Paperback

$42.89

or 4 interest-free payments of $10.72 with

Ships in 7 to 10 business days

Music hall was the most dynamic and successful popular theatre genre of the 19th century. It reflected the lifestyles and preoccupations of working people in a way that only television in the modern era has done since. Our own impressions of Victorian society still owe much to music hall songs and idioms, in terms such as Jingoism. While London dominated the wider British music hall, Glasgow was the centre of a vigorous Scottish performing culture, one developed in a Presbyterian society with a very different experience of industrial urbanization. It drew heavily on older fairground and traditional forms in developing its own brand of this new urban entertainment. This text explores all aspects of the Scottish music hall industry, from the lives and professional culture of performers and impresarios to the place of music hall in Scottish life. It also explores issues of national identity, both in terms of Scottish audiences' responses to the promotion of imperial themes in songs and performing material, and in the version of Scottish identity projected by Lauder and other kilted acts at home and abroad in America, Canada, Australia and throughout the English-speaking world. This account should be of interest to students and teachers of Scottish social history, popular culture, 19th-century social history and theatre studies, as well as anyone with an interest in the history of popular entertainment.

Shipping

	Standard Shipping	Express Shipping
Metro postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Regional postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Rural postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95

Orders over $79.00 qualify for free shipping.

How to return your order

At Booktopia, we offer hassle-free returns in accordance with our returns policy. If you wish to return an item, please get in touch with Booktopia Customer Care.

Additional postage charges may be applicable.

Defective items

If there is a problem with any of the items received for your order then the Booktopia Customer Care team is ready to assist you.

For more info please visit our Help Centre.

The Development of Music Hall, 1850-1885
'A Time for Amusement': The Introduction of Variety 1880-1914
Performers I: The Scottish 'Pro's'
Performers II: The Music Hall Community in Glasgow
Performers III: 'Deceitful Minnie Reeve': Respectability and the Profession
Patriotism, Empire and the Glasgow Music Hall
The Scottish Music Hall and the Public
Conclusion
Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.

Scotland and the music hall, 18501914

At a Glance

Paperback

Shipping

How to return your order

Defective items

You Can Find This Book In

More in Folk & Traditional Music

This Year

365 songs annotated

When The Drummers Were Women

A Spiritual History of Rhythm

Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You

Redtails in the Sunset

The untold story of the Central Australian Football Club

Bob Dylan

Jewish Roots, American Soil

100 Years of Grand Ole Opry

A Celebration of the Artists, the Fans, and the Home of Country Music

Folk Music

A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs

Energy Follows Thought

The Stories Behind My Songs

Sweet Freedom's Song

How Music of Patriotism, Protest, and Persistence Shapes American Identity

Songs of Desire and Defiance

Subjectivity, Emotions, and Authenticity in Bhawaiya Folk Songs of North Bengal

Remembering Mgqumeni

Polyphonic Narratives of His Life and Music

Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 13

Genres: International. Part I, A-Ho

Teaching Bob Dylan

"Multitudes"

Cantata Profana

Bartok's Sacred Bridge

Audible Ancestors

Tamborazo Music and Indigenous Memory in the Borderlands

What Do You Do When You're Lonesome

The Authorized Biography of Justin Townes Earle

The Bradley Barn Sessions - George Jones

Exclusive Photographs of Country and Rock Icons Recording with The Legend

Twin Lead Lines

Bittersweet Sounds of Passage

Balinese Gamelan Angklung Cremation Music

Sea Shanty Play-Alongs for Clarinet in BB

Ten Sea Shanties to Play Along. from Aloha 'Oe, La Paloma, Santiana Via Sloop John B., the Drunken Sailor t

Out of the Depths

The first collection of Holocaust songs

Buzz Busby

Father of Washington, DC, Bluegrass

James Taylor - A One Man Parade

The Illustrated Biography

Chet

King Picker and Pioneer of the Nashville Sound

This product is categorised by