Music Hall and Modernity: The Late-Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture

by Barry J. Faulk

Book Overview

The late-Victorian discovery of the music hall by English intellectuals marks a crucial moment in the history of popular culture. Music Hall and Modernity demonstrates how such pioneering cultural critics as Arthur Symons and Elizabeth Robins Pennell used the music hall to secure and promote their professional identity as guardians of taste and national welfare. These social arbiters were, at the same time, devotees of the spontaneous culture...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082142095X
• ISBN13: 9780821420959
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"