Music Hall and Modernity : The Late-Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture Paperback / softback
by Barry J. Faulk
Paperback / softback
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The late-Victorian discovery of the music hall by English intellectuals marks a crucial moment in the history of popular culture.
Music Hall and Modernity demonstrates how such pioneering cultural critics as Arthur Symons and Elizabeth Robins Pennell used the music hall to secure and promote their professional identity as guardians of taste and national welfare.
These social arbiters were, at the same time, devotees of the spontaneous culture of “the people.â€In examining fiction from Walter Besant, Hall Caine, and Henry Nevinson, performance criticism from William Archer and Max Beerbohm, and late-Victorian controversies over philanthropy and moral reform, scholar Barry Faulk argues that discourse on music-hall entertainment helped consolidate the identity and tastes of an emergent professional class.
Critics and writers legitimized and cleaned up the music hall, at the same time allowing issues of class, respect, and empowerment to be negotiated. Music Hall and Modernity offers a complex view of the new middle-class, middlebrow mass culture of late-Victorian London and contributes to a body of scholarship on nineteenth-century urbanism.
The book will also interest scholars concerned with the emergence of a professional managerial class and the genealogy of cultural studies.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Ohio University Press
- Publication Date:15/03/2014
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- ISBN:9780821420959
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Ohio University Press
- Publication Date:15/03/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9780821420959
