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Entertaining the empire : London music hall and the export of Britishness / Andrew Horrall.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Horrall, Andrew, author.
- Series:
- Studies in Popular Culture Series
- Studies in Popular Culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music-halls--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Music-halls.
- Popular culture--Great Britain--Colonies.
- Popular culture.
- Settler colonialism--Social aspects.
- Settler colonialism.
- Racism--Social aspects.
- Racism.
- National characteristics, British--History.
- National characteristics, British.
- Great Britain--Colonies--Social aspects.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : digital file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2025.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- data file
- Biography/History:
- Andrew Horrall is senior archivist at Canada's national archives and adjunct professor of History at Carleton University. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge.
- Summary:
- Comic songs and sketches created in London traversed the British empire in the half century before the First World War. The amateurs and professionals who performed them in colonial venues resemblingthose at Home transformed an inane popular culture into a bulwark of an increasingly racialised British overseas identity.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Information
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- General editor's foreword
- Acknowledgements
- A note on terminology
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction: don't dilly dally
- Off to Australia went Billy Barlow: London music hall spreads into the Anglo world
- Slap bang and fizz, fizz, fizz: music hall swell songs transmit Britishness overseas
- Twiggy voo? London stars venture into the Anglo world
- Round the world and half-way back again: impresarios consolidate global tours
- Conclusion: scarcely a boat sails without artistes on board
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index. [delete or amend as required]
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- Other Format:
- Print version: Horrall, Andrew Entertaining the Empire
- ISBN:
- 9781526188908
- 9781526188885
- OCLC:
- 1547905905
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