The Britannia Panopticon Music Hall and Cosmopolitan Entertainment Culture (eBook)
XIII, 273 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
978-1-137-47659-3 (ISBN)
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.
Providing a comprehensive analysis of this dynamic popular theatre of the industrial age, Maloney examines the role of the hall's managers, marketing and promotional strategies, audiences, and performing genres from the hall's opening in 1859 until final closure in 1938. The book also explores stage representations of Irish and Jewish immigrant communities present in surrounding city centre areas, demonstrating the Britannia's diasporic links to other British cities and centres in North America, thus providing a multifaceted and pioneering account of this still extant Victorian music hall.
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).
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.Providing a comprehensive analysis of this dynamic popular theatre of the industrial age, Maloney examines the role of the hall's managers, marketing and promotional strategies, audiences, and performing genres from the hall's opening in 1859 until final closure in 1938. The book also explores stage representations of Irish and Jewish immigrant communities present in surrounding city centre areas, demonstrating the Britannia's diasporic links to other British cities and centres in North America, thus providing a multifaceted and pioneering account of this still extant Victorian music hall.
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).
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The Britannia Music Hall, 1859-1905.- Chapter 3. ‘Flying Down the Saltmarket’.- Chapter 4. ‘Ikey Granitestein from Aberdeen’.- Chapter 5. Pickard’s Panopticon, 1906-1938.- Chapter 6. ‘Paradise for a couple of hours’.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 13.10.2016 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History | Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History |
| Zusatzinfo | XIII, 273 p. 21 illus. |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Schlagworte | Arts • Britain • Cinema • cultural heritage • Culture • culture in Glasgow • Early Cinema • entertainment community • Glasgow fair • History • History of Literature • Irish Diaspora • jewish community • Judaism • mass entertainment culture • music • natiional culture • nineteenth-century theatre • Oral History • performing arts • popular entertainment • pre-industrial entertainment • Racial Stereotypes • Scottish theatre • societal development • stage • Theatre • theatre and performance studies • Theatre history • twentieth-century theatre • urban folklore • variety theatre • Victorian music hall |
| ISBN-10 | 1-137-47659-1 / 1137476591 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-137-47659-3 / 9781137476593 |
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