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Scotland and the Music Hall, 1850-1914
Paul Maloney  

$33.95 Paperback
Release Date: 4/1/2003
ISBN: 9780719061479    
272 Pages

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Distributed for Manchester University Press



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About the Book

Music hall was the most dynamic and successful popular theatre genre of the nineteenth 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, the Second City of the Empire, was the centre of a vigorous Scottish performing culture, one developed in a Presbyterian society with a very different experience of industrial urbanisation. It drew heavily on older fairground and traditional forms in developing its own brand of this new urban entertainment.

The book 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 fascinating and lively account will be of interest to students and teachers of Scottish social history, popular culture, nineteenth-century social history and theatre studies, as well as anyone with an interest in the history of popular entertainment.

About the Author(s)

Paul Maloney is Publications Editor for Scottish Opera

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
General editor's foreword
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. The development of music hall, 1850-1885
3. 'A time for amusement': the introduction of variety 1880-1914
4. Performers I: the Scottish 'pro's'
5. Performers II: the music hall community in Glasgow 6. Performers III: 'Deceitful Minnie Reeve': respectability and the profession
7. Patriotism, empire and the Glasgow music hall
8. The Scottish music hall and the public
9. Conclusion

Appendices
Select bibliography
Index

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