Nation and Race in West End Revue

1910–1930

David Linton (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

VII, 202 Seiten

2022 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-75211-8 (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.

David Linton is a performer/theatre practitioner and senior lecturer in Drama at Kingston University, London, UK. His research explores issues of resistance, adaptation, and exchange in theatre. This focuses on participatory arts practice, black British performance and pre-modern popular theatre forms, and their contemporary applications, specifically mask/minstrelsy, pantomime, burlesque/neo burlesque, cabaret, pierrot, hip hop theatre, and revue.

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	03.08.2022
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in British Musical Theatre
Zusatzinfo	VII, 202 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	285 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
Schlagworte	burlesque • Colonialism • Commedia • minstrelsy • Music Hall • Pantomime • Pierrot
ISBN-10	3-030-75211-9 / 3030752119
ISBN-13	978-3-030-75211-8 / 9783030752118
Zustand	Neuware