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Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City Book

Lively, innovative, well-illustrated essays on the making of the Victorian entertainment industry which get inside the popular experience of the pub, music-hall, theatre and comic press. In this new leisure world, audiences learned how to be performers themselves, adopting roles and styles appropriate to the unsettling dynamics of the modern city. A major advance in understanding how popular culture actually works, this is a model of the successful integration of the theory and practice of social history and cultural studies.Read More

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    Lively and innovative, these well-illustrated essays on the making of the Victorian entertainment industry get inside the popular experience of the pub, music-hall, theater and comic press. In this new leisure world, audiences learned how to be performers themselves, adopting roles and styles appropriate to the unsettling dynamics of the modern city. A major advance in understanding how popular culture actually works, this is a model of the successful integration of the theory and practice of social history and cultural studies.

  • 0521543487
  • 9780521543484
  • Peter Bailey
  • 16 October 2003
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 272
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