Entertaining the Empire
London Music Hall and the Export of Britishness
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2025
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-8889-2 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-8889-2 (ISBN)
Comic songs and sketches created in London traversed the British empire in the half century before the First World War. The amateurs and professionals who performed them in colonial venues resemblingthose at Home transformed an inane popular culture into a bulwark of an increasingly racialised British overseas identity. -- .
The stage entertainments known as music hall emerged in mid-Victorian London just as the British began colonising large parts of the world.Settlers recreated this metropolitan popular culture throughout the empire and in places under foreign control. They erected music halls resembling those at home, imported songs and sketches, performed inamateur shows and watched touring professionals. London originals were rewritten as commentaries on local conditions. This activity transformed music hall into a marker of an exclusionary British identity overseas and made colonies look and sound more like Britain. The result was that settlers separated by vast distances were linked by a shared popular culture. The touring circuits and cultural affinities the Victorians created endure to this day. -- .
The stage entertainments known as music hall emerged in mid-Victorian London just as the British began colonising large parts of the world.Settlers recreated this metropolitan popular culture throughout the empire and in places under foreign control. They erected music halls resembling those at home, imported songs and sketches, performed inamateur shows and watched touring professionals. London originals were rewritten as commentaries on local conditions. This activity transformed music hall into a marker of an exclusionary British identity overseas and made colonies look and sound more like Britain. The result was that settlers separated by vast distances were linked by a shared popular culture. The touring circuits and cultural affinities the Victorians created endure to this day. -- .
Andrew Horrall is senior archivist at Canada’s national archives and adjunct professor of History at Carleton University. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge. -- .
Introduction: don’t dill-dally on the way
1 Off to Australia went Billy Barlow: the Anglo world and metropolitan popular culture
2 Slap bang and fizz, fizz, fizz: music hall
3 Twiggy voo?: variety entertainment
4 Round the world and half-way back again: the new century
Conclusion: scarcely a boat sails without artistes on board -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 24.10.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Popular Culture |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 582 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-8889-9 / 1526188899 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-8889-2 / 9781526188892 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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