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Music hall was one of the glories of Victorian England. Sentimental, vulgar, class-conscious, but always patriotic and on the side of the underdog, it held a mirror to the audiences hopes and fears, and sometimes the general absurdity of life. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Sep 1, 2013 · He follows a well-trodden path in tracing the ancestry of the halls over a century or so among the multifarious entertainments of London's leisure world, but repeats the blinkered orthodoxy of older accounts by claiming Charles Morton as ‘The First Pioneer’ of Victorian music hall in opening his Canterbury hall in Lambeth in the 1850s: a ...
- Peter Bailey
- 2013
Sep 28, 2012 · Britain's first bona fide hall, the Canterbury Arms, doubled as an art gallery, with pictures by Gainsborough and Hogarth. My Old Man shows music-hall entertainers were a pretty...
Shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize; former prime minister John Major takes a remarkable journey into his own unconventional family past to tell the story of the British music hall.
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- John Major
- 2 min
In ‘My Old Man’, the former prime minister tells his father’s story as a springboard for an entertaining history of the music hall, from its origins in Elizabethan times through to its heyday in the nineteenth century and eventual decline with the rise of radio and cinema in the twentieth century.
- John Major
In ‘My Old Man’, the former prime minister tells his father’s story as a springboard for an entertaining history of the music hall, from its origins in Elizabethan times through to its heyday in the nineteenth century and eventual decline with the rise of radio and cinema in the twentieth century.
