The Britannia Panopticon Music Hall and Cosmopolitan Entertainment Culture

by Paul Maloney

Book Overview

Focusing on Glasgow's earliest surviving music hall, the Britannia, later the Panopticon, this book explores the role of one of the city's most iconic cultural venues within the cosmopolitan entertainment market that emerged in British cities in the nineteenth century. Shedding light on the increasing diversity of commercial entertainment provided by such venues - offering everything from music hall, early cinema and amateur nights to waxworks,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137479094
• ISBN13: 9781137479099
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.7"