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The Britannia Panopticon Music Hall and Cosmopolitan Entertainment Culture
Paul Maloney
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Description for The Britannia Panopticon Music Hall and Cosmopolitan Entertainment Culture
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 286 pages, 21 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKSC; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; ASZH; HBJD1; HBT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 159 x 286 x 21. Weight in Grams: 506.
Focusing on Glasgow's earliest surviving music hall, the Britannia, later the Panopticon, this book explores the role of one of the city's most iconic cultural venues within the cosmopolitan entertainment market that emerged in British cities in the nineteenth century. Shedding light on the increasing diversity of commercial entertainment provided by such venues - offering everything from music hall, early cinema and amateur nights to waxworks, menageries and freak shows - this study also encompasses the model of community-based, working-class music hall which characterised the Panopticon's later years, challenging narratives of the primacy of city centre variety. ... Read more
Focusing on Glasgow's earliest surviving music hall, the Britannia, later the Panopticon, this book explores the role of one of the city's most iconic cultural venues within the cosmopolitan entertainment market that emerged in British cities in the nineteenth century. Shedding light on the increasing diversity of commercial entertainment provided by such venues - offering everything from music hall, early cinema and amateur nights to waxworks, menageries and freak shows - this study also encompasses the model of community-based, working-class music hall which characterised the Panopticon's later years, challenging narratives of the primacy of city centre variety. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
Condition
New
Weight
506g
Number of Pages
273
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137479099
SKU
V9781137479099
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About Paul Maloney
Paul Maloney has worked as a stage director in opera and has taught, researched and published widely in the fields of Scottish popular theatre and twentieth century Scottish political theatre. Research Fellow at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, he is the author of Scotland and the Music Hall, 1850-1914 (2003).
Reviews for The Britannia Panopticon Music Hall and Cosmopolitan Entertainment Culture
... the book is a pleasure to read - a treasure trove of examples of nineteenth- and twentieth-century popular performance, a testimony to the ways in which managers negotiated with the community around them and a well-written investigation into the relationship between urban shifts and the tensions and representations of contemporary immigrant communities. (Louise Wingrove, Journal of Victorian Culture, ... Read more