Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521574174)

Lively and innovative, these well-illustrated essays on the making of the Victorian entertainment industry get inside the popular experience of the pub, music-hall, theater and comic press. In this new leisure world, audiences learned how to be performers themselves, adopting roles and styles appropriate to the unsettling dynamics of the modern city. A major advance in understanding how popular culture actually works, this is a model of the successful integration of the theory and practice of social history and cultural studies.

Author: Peter Bailey
ISBN-10: 052157417X
ISBN-13: 9780521574174
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/13/1998
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d