Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City

Name: Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City
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ISBN: 9780521574174

ISBN-10: 052157417X

ISBN-13: 9780521574174

Edition: 1998

Authors: Peter Bailey

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This lively and highly innovative book reconstructs the texture and meaning of popular pleasure in the Victorian entertainment industry. Integrating theories of language and social action with close reading of contemporary sources, Peter Bailey provides a richly detailed study of the pub, music-hall, theatre and comic newspaper. Analysis of the interplay between entrepreneurs, performers, social critics and audience reveals distinctive codes of humour, sociability and glamour that constituted a new populist ideology of consumerism and the good time. Bailey shows how the new leisure world offered a repertoire of roles that enabled its audience to negotiate the unsettling encounters of urban…

Book details

List price: $149.99
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/8/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Introduction: social history, cultural studies and the cad



The Victorian middle class and the problem of leisure



A role analysis of working-class respectability



Ally Soper's half-holiday: comic art in the 1880s



Business and good fellowship in the London music hall



Champagne Charlie and the music hall swell song



Music-hall and the knowingness of popular culture



The Victorian barmaid as cultural prototype



Musical comedy and the rhetoric of the girl, 1892-1914



Breaking the sound barrier


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