ISBN: 9781473837188

'The music hall ...had no place for reticence; it was downright, it shouted, it made noise, it enjoyed itself and made the people enjoy themselves as well.' W.J. MACQUEEN POPEMusic Hall l… Mehr…

'The music hall ...had no place for reticence; it was downright, it shouted, it made noise, it enjoyed itself and made the people enjoy themselves as well.' W.J. MACQUEEN POPEMusic Hall lies at the root of all modern popular entertainment. With stars such as Marie Lloyd, Harry Lauder and Dan Leno, it reached its glorious, brassy height between 1890 and the First World War. In the first book on this subject for many years, Richard Anthony Baker whisks us off on a colourful and nostalgic tour of the rise and fall of British music hall.At the beginning of the nineteenth century people sang traditional songs in taverns for entertainment. This was so popular that rooms started to be added to inns for shows to be staged, and, before long, songs were being specially composed and purpose-built theatres were springing up everywhere. Britain's working class had, for the first time, its own form of public entertainment and its own breed of stars. The colour and vitality attracted serious writers and artists, as well as the future Edward VII, and music hall became simultaneously the haunt of the working classes and the avant-garde.Including stories of a clergyman who wrote music-hall sketches, a hall in Glasgow where luckless entertainers were pulled off stage by a long hooked pole, and Cockney dictionaries that helped Americans understand touring British performers, this book is a hugely engaging slice of social history, rich in humour, tragedy and bathos.As featured on BBC Radio Lincolnshire and in the Sunderland Echo.; PDF; Music, Stage & Screen > Dance & other performing arts > Other performing arts > Variety shows, music, Pen & Sword Books<

2014, ISBN: 9781473837188

An Illustrated History, eBooks, eBook Download (PDF), 'The music hall ...had no place for reticence; it was downright, it shouted, it made noise, it enjoyed itself and made the people enj… Mehr…

An Illustrated History, eBooks, eBook Download (PDF), 'The music hall ...had no place for reticence; it was downright, it shouted, it made noise, it enjoyed itself and made the people enjoy themselves as well.' W.J. MACQUEEN POPEMusic Hall lies at the root of all modern popular entertainment. With stars such as Marie Lloyd, Harry Lauder and Dan Leno, it reached its glorious, brassy height between 1890 and the First World War. In the first book on this subject for many years, Richard Anthony Baker whisks us off on a colourful and nostalgic tour of the rise and fall of British music hall.At the beginning of the nineteenth century people sang traditional songs in taverns for entertainment. This was so popular that rooms started to be added to inns for shows to be staged, and, before long, songs were being specially composed and purpose-built theatres were springing up everywhere. Britain's working class had, for the first time, its own form of public entertainment and its own breed of stars. The colour and vitality attracted serious writers and artists, as well as the future Edward VII, and music hall became simultaneously the haunt of the working classes and the avant-garde.Including stories of a clergyman who wrote music-hall sketches, a hall in Glasgow where luckless entertainers were pulled off stage by a long hooked pole, and Cockney dictionaries that helped Americans understand touring British performers, this book is a hugely engaging slice of social history, rich in humour, tragedy and bathos.As featured on BBC Radio Lincolnshire and in the Sunderland Echo. [PU: Pen and Sword], Seiten: 320, Pen and Sword, 2014<

ISBN: 1473837189

British Music Hall ab 13.49 € als pdf eBook: . Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen, Medien > Bücher, British Music Hall - eBook als pdf von Richard Anthony Baker - Pen and … Mehr…

British Music Hall ab 13.49 € als pdf eBook: . Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen, Medien > Bücher, British Music Hall - eBook als pdf von Richard Anthony Baker - Pen and Sword - 9781473837188<

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2014, ISBN: 9781473837188

An Illustrated History, eBooks, eBook Download (PDF), [PU: Pen and Sword], Pen and Sword, 2014