ISBN10: 1783831189, ISBN13: 9781783831180, [publisher: Pen and Sword Social History] Softcover The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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ISBN10: 1783831189, ISBN13: 9781783831180, [publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd] Softcover Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day.
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ISBN10: 1783831189, ISBN13: 9781783831180, [publisher: Pen and Sword Social History] Softcover Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.4
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[Amherst, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2014]

ISBN10: 1783831189, ISBN13: 9781783831180, [publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, Barnsley] Softcover Paperback. Music Hall lies at the root of all modern popular entertainment. With stars such as Marie Lloyd, Harry Lauder and Dan Leno, it reached its glorious, brassy height between 1890 and the First World War. In the first book on this subject for many years, Richard Anthony Baker whisks us off on a colourful and nostalgic tour of the rise and fall of British music hall. At the beginning of the nineteenth century people sang traditional songs in taverns for entertainment. This was so popular that rooms started to be added to inns for shows to be staged, and, before long, songs were being specially composed and purpose-built theatres were springing up everywhere. Britain's working class had, for the first time, its own form of public entertainment and its own breed of stars. The colour and vitality attracted serious writers and artists, as well as the future Edward VII, and music hall became simultaneously the haunt of the working classes and the avant-garde. Including stories of a clergyman who wrote music-hall sketches, a hall in Glasgow where luckless entertainers were pulled off stage by a long hooked pole, and Cockney dictionaries that helped Americans understand touring British performers, this book is a hugely engaging slice of social history, rich in humour, tragedy and bathos. AUTHOR: During 30 years at the BBC, Richard Anthony Baker wrote and ...

ISBN10: 1783831189, ISBN13: 9781783831180, [publisher: Pen and Sword] Softcover Music Hall lies at the root of all modern popular entertainment. This book is a hugely engaging slice of social history, rich in humour, tragedy and bathos Num Pages: 320 pages, 100 images integrated. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; ASZH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 654. . 2014. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
[Olney, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2014]

Pen & Sword Books Ltd 2014 Paperback New Music Hall lies at the root of all modern popular entertainment. This book is a hugely engaging slice of social history, rich in humour, tragedy and bathos Num Pages: 320 pages, 100 images integrated. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; ASZH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 654. 2014. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.