Nation and Race in West End Revue

1910–1930

David Linton (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

VII, 202 Seiten

2021 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-75208-8 (ISBN)

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London West End revue constituted a particular response to mounting social, political, and cultural insecurities over Britain's status and position at the beginning of the twentieth century. Insecurities regarding Britain's colonial rule as exemplified in Ireland and elsewhere, were compounded by growing demands for social reform across the country - the call for women's emancipation, the growth of the labour, and the trade union movements all created a climate of mounting disillusion. Revue correlated the immediacy of this uncertain world, through a fragmented vocabulary of performance placing satire, parody, social commentary, and critique at its core and found popularity in reflecting and responding to the variations of the new lived experiences. Multidisciplinary in its creation and realisation, revue incorporated dance, music, design, theatre, and film appropriating pre-modern theatre forms, techniques, and styles such as burlesque, music hall, pantomime, minstrelsy, and pierrot.Experimenting with narrative and expressions of speech, movement, design, and sound, revue displayed ambivalent representations that reflected social and cultural negotiations of previously essentialised identities in the modern world. Part of a wide and diverse cultural space at the beginning of the twentieth century it was acknowledged both by the intellectual avant-garde and the workers theatre movement not only as a reflexive action, but also as an evolving dynamic multidisciplinary performance model, which was highly influential across British culture. Revue displaced the romanticism of musical comedy by combining a satirical listless detachment with a defiant sophistication that articulated a fading British hegemonic sensibility, a cultural expression of a fragile and changing social and political order.

lt;b>David Linton is a performer/theatre practitioner and lecturer in Drama at Kingston University, London, UK. His research explores issues of resistance, national identity, adaptation, and exchange in theatre. In particular, how work focuses on participatory arts practice, black British performance, and pre-modern popular theatre forms and their contemporary applications. He is a member of The Society For Theatre Research and British Actors Equity and co-editor of Popular Musical Theatre in London and Berlin, 1890-1939 (2014).

Chapter 1: Reading London West End Revue.- Chapter 2: Revue in the Modern World: Possibilities and Perils -West End Identities.- Chapter 3: New Insecurities, New Form, New Identity- National Identity and Raciologies in Eightpence a Mile (1913).- Chapter 4: Degeneration/Regeneration - The Remaking of Nation in Wartime West End Spectacular Revue.- Chapter 5: Blackbirds in London: Black Internationalism and the Black Imaginary.- Chapter 6: Class Distinction and National Identity in 1920s West End Intimate Revue.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.08.2021
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in British Musical Theatre
Zusatzinfo	VII, 202 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	378 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
Schlagworte	burlesque • Colonialism • Commedia • minstrelsy • Music Hall • Pantomime • Pierrot
ISBN-10	3-030-75208-9 / 3030752089
ISBN-13	978-3-030-75208-8 / 9783030752088
Zustand	Neuware