Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City

by Peter Bailey and Peter Bailey

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Lively and innovative, these well-illustrated essays on the making of the Victorian entertainment industry get inside the popular experience of the pub, music-hall, theater and comic press. In this new leisure world, audiences learned how to be performers themselves, adopting roles and styles appropriate to the unsettling dynamics of the modern city. A major advance in understanding how popular culture actually works, this is a model of the successful...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521543487

ISBN13:9780521543484

Release Date:October 2003

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:272 Pages

Weight:0.89 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Arts, Music & Photography Drama History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Performing Arts Social Science Social Sciences

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