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Best Music Hall and Variety Songs

Author : Peter Gammond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Best Music Hall and Variety Songs written by Peter Gammond and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Songs written or sung by Arthur Askey, H.M. Burnaby, Albert Chevalier, George Grossmith, Tommy Handley, Leslie Henson, A.P. Herbert, Norman Long, Ernest Longstaffe, Greatrex Newman, Ralph Reader, Fred Rome, Nellie Wallace, The Western Brothers and many others."--T.p.Includes the melody line for the chorus, and words to all the verses of each song. As well as the contents, there is also an index of first lines.

Britpop and the English Music Tradition

Author : Professor Andy Bennett
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409494071
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Britpop and the English Music Tradition written by Professor Andy Bennett and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britpop and the English Music Tradition is the first study devoted exclusively to the Britpop phenomenon and its contexts. The genre of Britpop, with its assertion of Englishness, evolved at the same time that devolution was striking deep into the hegemonic claims of English culture to represent Britain. It is usually argued that Britpop, with its strident declarations of Englishness, was a response to the dominance of grunge. The contributors in this volume take a different point of view: that Britpop celebrated Englishness at a time when British culture, with its English hegemonic core, was being challenged and dismantled. It is now timely to look back on Britpop as a cultural phenomenon of the 1990s that can be set into the political context of its time, and into the cultural context of the last fifty years – a time of fundamental revision of what it means to be British and English. The book examines issues such as the historical antecedents of Britpop, the subjectivities governing the performative conventions of Britpop, the cultural context within which Britpop unfolded, and its influence on the post-Britpop music scene in the UK. While Britpop is central to the volume, discussion of this phenomenon is used as an opportunity to examine the particularities of English popular music since the turn of the twentieth century.

Oliver!

Author : Marc Napolitano
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190207302
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Oliver! written by Marc Napolitano and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the show was first produced in 1960, at a time when transatlantic musical theatre was dominated by American productions, Oliver! already stood out for its overt Englishness. But in writing Oliver!, librettist and composer Lionel Bart had to reconcile the Englishness of his Dickensian source with the American qualities of the integrated book musical. To do so, he turned to the musical traditions that had defined his upbringing: English music hall, Cockney street singing, and East End Yiddish theatre. This book reconstructs the complicated biography of Bart's play, from its early inception as a pop musical inspired by a marketable image, through its evolution into a sincere Dickensian adaptation that would push English musical theatre to new dramatic heights. The book also addresses Oliver!'s phenomenal reception in its homeland, where audiences responded to the musical's Englishness with a nationalistic fervor. The musical, which has more than fulfilled its promise as one of the most popular English musicals of all time, remains one of the country's most significant shows. Author Marc Napolitano shows how Oliver!'s popularity has ultimately exerted a significant influence on two separate cultural trends. Firstly, Bart's adaptation forever impacted the culture text of Dickens's Oliver Twist; to this day, the general perception of the story and the innumerable allusions to the novel in popular media are colored heavily by the sights, scenes, sounds, and songs from the musical, and virtually every major adaptation of from the 1970s on has responded to Bart's work in some way. Secondly, Oliver! helped to move the English musical forward by establishing a post-war English musical tradition that would eventually pave the way for the global dominance of the West End musical in the 1980s. As such, Napolitano's book promises to be an important book for students and scholars in musical theatre studies as well as to general readers interested in the megamusical.

Love and Toil

Author : Ellen Ross
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198024460
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Love and Toil written by Ellen Ross and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-11-25 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The feisty warm-hearted "mum" has long figured as a symbol of the working class in Britain, yet working-class history has emphasized male organizations such as clubs, unions, or political parties. Investigating a different dimension of social history, Love and Toil focuses on motherhood among the London poor in the late Victorian and Edwardian years, and on the cultures, communities, and ties with husbands and children that women created. Mothers' skills in managing the family budget, earning income, and caring for their children were critical in protecting households from the worst hardships of industrial capitalism, yet poverty or the threat of it molded intimate relationships and left its imprint on personalities. This book is also a case study demonstrating the larger argument that the concept of "motherhood" is more socially and historically constructed than biologically determined. Shaky household economics, pressure toward respectability, the close proximity of neighbors, the precariousness of infant and child life, and little chance of better lives for their children shaped the work and emotions of motherhood much more than did the biological experiences of pregnancy, birth, and lactation. This beautifully written book, embellished with Cockney slang and music hall songs, addresses fascinating questions in the fields of women's studies, labor history, social policy, and family history.

British Music Hall

Author : Richard Anthony Baker
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473837405
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book British Music Hall written by Richard Anthony Baker and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-05-31 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The music hall ...had no place for reticence; it was downright, it shouted, it made noise, it enjoyed itself and made the people enjoy themselves as well.' W.J. MACQUEEN POPEMusic 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.As featured on BBC Radio Lincolnshire and in the Sunderland Echo.

Your Own, Your Very Own! a Music Hall Scrapbook

Author : Peter Gammond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Your Own, Your Very Own! a Music Hall Scrapbook written by Peter Gammond and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Popular Music and Its Business

Author : the late Russell Sanjek
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190243295
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book American Popular Music and Its Business written by the late Russell Sanjek and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1988-07-28 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume two concentrates exclusively on music activity in the United States in the nineteenth century. Among the topics discussed are how changing technology affected the printing of music, the development of sheet music publishing, the growth of the American musical theater, popular religious music, black music (including spirituals and ragtime), music during the Civil War, and finally "music in the era of monopoly," including such subjects as copyright, changing technology and distribution, invention of the phonograph, copyright revision, and the establishment of Tin Pan Alley.

The Function of Song in Contemporary British Drama

Author : Elizabeth Hale Winkler
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874133585
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (335 download)

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Book Synopsis The Function of Song in Contemporary British Drama by : Elizabeth Hale Winkler

Download or read book The Function of Song in Contemporary British Drama written by Elizabeth Hale Winkler and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive study formulates an original theory that dramatic song must be perceived as a separate genre situated between poetry, music, and theater. It focuses on John Arden, Margaretta D'Arcy, Edward Bond, Peter Barnes, John Osborne, Peter Nichols, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Peter Shaffer, and John McGrath.

Listen to This

Author : Alex Ross
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429977612
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Listen to This written by Alex Ross and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011 Alex Ross's award-winning international bestseller, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing Ross as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians. Listen to This, which takes its title from a beloved 2004 essay in which Ross describes his late-blooming discovery of pop music, showcases the best of his writing from more than a decade at The New Yorker. These pieces, dedicated to classical and popular artists alike, are at once erudite and lively. In a previously unpublished essay, Ross brilliantly retells hundreds of years of music history—from Renaissance dances to Led Zeppelin—through a few iconic bass lines of celebration and lament. He vibrantly sketches canonical composers such as Schubert, Verdi, and Brahms; gives us in-depth interviews with modern pop masters such as Björk and Radiohead; and introduces us to music students at a Newark high school and indie-rock hipsters in Beijing. Whether his subject is Mozart or Bob Dylan, Ross shows how music expresses the full complexity of the human condition. Witty, passionate, and brimming with insight, Listen to This teaches us how to listen more closely.

Adult Responses to Popular Music and Intergenerational Relations in Britain, 19551975

Author : Gillian A.M. Mitchell
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783089016
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Adult Responses to Popular Music and Intergenerational Relations in Britain, 19551975 written by Gillian A.M. Mitchell and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Adult Reactions to Popular Music and Inter-generational Relations in Britain, 1955–1975’ challenges stereotypes concerning a post-war ‘generation gap’, exacerbated by rebellion-inducing popular music styles, by demonstrating the considerable variety which frequently characterized adult responses to the music, whilst also highlighting that the impact of the music on inter-generational relations was more complex than is often assumed. [NP] Utilizing extensive primary evidence, from first-person accounts to newspapers, television programmes, surveys and archive collections, the book adopts a thematic approach, identifying three key arenas of British society in which adult responses to popular music, and the impact of such reactions upon relations between generations, seem particularly revealing and significant. The book examines in detail the place of popular music within family life and Christian churches and their engagement with popular music, particularly within youth clubs. It also explores ‘encounters’ between the worlds of traditional Variety entertainment and popular music while providing broader perspectives on this most dynamic and turbulent of periods.

Parliamentary Papers

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1048 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Music in Canada

Author : Elaine Keillor
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773533915
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Music in Canada written by Elaine Keillor and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2008 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a history of Canadian musical expressions and their relationship to Canada's cultural and geographic diversity. This book features a survey of 'musics' in Canada and includes forty-three vignettes highlighting topics such as Inuit throat games, the music of k d lang, and orchestras in Victoria.

The Working-Class Intellectual in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain

Author : Aruna Krishnamurthy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351880330
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book The Working-Class Intellectual in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain written by Aruna Krishnamurthy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Britain, the period that stretches from the middle of the eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century marks the emergence of the working classes, alongside and in response to the development of the middle-class public sphere. This collection contributes to that scholarship by exploring the figure of the "working-class intellectual," who both assimilates the anti-authoritarian lexicon of the middle classes to create a new political and cultural identity, and revolutionizes it with the subversive energy of class hostility. Through considering a broad range of writings across key moments of working-class self-expression, the essays reevaluate a host of familiar writers such as Robert Burns, John Thelwall, Charles Dickens, Charles Kingsley, Ann Yearsley, and even Shakespeare, in terms of their role within a working-class constituency. The collection also breaks fresh ground in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scholarship by shedding light on a number of unfamiliar and underrepresented figures, such as Alexander Somerville, Michael Faraday, and the singer Ned Corvan.

Report from the Joint Select Committee of the House of Lords and the House of Commons on the Stage Plays (Censorship)

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Select Committee on Stage Plays (Censorship)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Report from the Joint Select Committee of the House of Lords and the House of Commons on the Stage Plays (Censorship) written by Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Select Committee on Stage Plays (Censorship) and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shakespeare and Sexuality in the Comedy of Morecambe & Wise

Author : Stephen Hamrick
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030339580
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Sexuality in the Comedy of Morecambe & Wise written by Stephen Hamrick and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contextualizing the duo’s work within British comedy, Shakespeare criticism, the history of sexuality, and their own historical moment, this book offers the first sustained analysis of the 20th Century’s most successful double-act. Over the course of a forty-four-year career (1940-1984), Eric Morecambe & Ernie Wise appropriated snippets of verse, scenes, and other elements from seventeen of Shakespeare’s plays more than one-hundred-and-fifty times. Fashioning a kinder, more inclusive world, they deployed a vast array of elements connected to Shakespeare, his life, and institutions. Rejecting claims that they offer only nostalgic escapism, Hamrick analyses their work within contemporary contexts, including their engagement with many forms and genres, including Variety, the heritage industry, journalism, and more. ‘The Boys’ deploy Shakespeare to work through issues of class, sexuality, and violence. Lesbianism, drag, gay marriage, and a queer aesthetics emerge, helping to normalize homosexuality and complicate masculinity in the ‘permissive’ 1960s.

Report from Committee of Selection of H.L., Reports from Select Committees of H.L., and Evidence, &c., and Reports from Joint Select Committees of H.L. and H.C., and Evidence, &c

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Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 790 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Report from Committee of Selection of H.L., Reports from Select Committees of H.L., and Evidence, &c., and Reports from Joint Select Committees of H.L. and H.C., and Evidence, &c written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Show Must Go On! Popular Song in Britain During the First World War

Author : John Mullen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317016122
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Show Must Go On! Popular Song in Britain During the First World War written by John Mullen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a collection of over one thousand popular songs from the war years, as well as around 150 soldiers’ songs, John Mullen provides a fascinating insight into the world of popular entertainment during the First World War. Mullen considers the position of songs of this time within the history of popular music, and the needs, tastes and experiences of working-class audiences who loved this music. To do this, he dispels some of the nostalgic, rose-tinted myths about music hall. At a time when recording companies and record sales were marginal, the book shows the centrality of the live show and of the sale of sheet music to the economy of the entertainment industry. Mullen assesses the popularity and significance of the different genres of musical entertainment which were common in the war years and the previous decades, including music hall, revue, pantomime, musical comedy, blackface minstrelsy, army entertainment and amateur entertainment in prisoner of war camps. He also considers non-commercial songs, such as hymns, folk songs and soldiers’ songs and weaves them into a subtle and nuanced approach to the nature of popular song, the ways in which audiences related to the music and the effects of the competing pressures of commerce, propaganda, patriotism, social attitudes and the progress of the war.