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Music hall & modernity : the late-Victorian discovery of popular culture /
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 p...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Athens :
Ohio University Press,
©2004.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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." In examining fiction from Walter Besant, Hall Caine, and Henry Nevinson, performance criticism from William Archer and Max Beerbohm, |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 244 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-236) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780821441398 0821441396 |