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Music hall: the business of pleasure

Peter Bailey
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  • Frontmatter (page N/A)
  • Editorial Preface (page vi)
  • Notes on Contributors (page vii)
  • Introduction: Making Sense of Music Hall (page viii)
  • Chapter 1 Building the Halls (John Earl, page 1)
  • Chapter 2 A Community of Friends: Business and Good Fellowship in London Music Hall Management, c. 1860-1885 (Peter Baily, page 33)
  • Chapter 3 Provincial Music Hall: Promoters and Public in Leicester (Jeremy Crump, page 53)
  • Chapter 4 The Composition of Music Hall Audiences 1850-1900 (Dagmar Hoher, page 73)
  • Chapter 5 'Managers in a small way': The Professionalisation of Variety Artistes, 1860-1914 (Lois Rutherford, page 93)
  • Chapter 6 'It was not what she said but the way she said it': The London County Council and the Music Halls (Susan Pennybacker, page 118)
  • Chapter 7 Manchester Morality and London Capital: The Battle Over the Palace of Varieties (Chris Waters, page 141)
  • Index (page 162)
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Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
A 20.1 (Spring, 1988): 120-121 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4049830
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Published: 1986
Publisher: Open University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780335152780 (hardcover)
  • 9780335151295 (paper)
Subject
  • European: 1800-present
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