{"product_id":"british-music-hall-richard-anthony-baker-9781783831180","title":"British Music Hall: An Illustrated History","description":"\u003cb\u003e'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 POPE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMusic 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 colorful and nostalgic tour of the rise and fall of British music hall.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt 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 theaters were springing up everywhere. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBritain's working class had, for the first time, its own form of public entertainment and its own breed of stars. The color 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncluding 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 humor, tragedy and bathos.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Anthony Baker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1783831189\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781783831180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pen and Sword Social History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/19\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.80d","brand":"Richard Anthony Baker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44080161620223,"sku":"9781783831180","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_07f0456c-826a-4bdd-978d-bb358eb59b53.jpg?v=1685485274","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/british-music-hall-richard-anthony-baker-9781783831180","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}