Entertaining the empire : London Music Hall and the Export of Britishness
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Studies in Popular Culture
ISBN-10
1526188899
ISBN-13
9781526188892
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Imprint
Manchester University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 28th, 2025
Print length
280 Pages
Weight
582 grams
Dimensions
23.40 x 15.60 x 1.70 cms
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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. -- .
The stage entertainments known as music hall emerged in mid-Victorian London just as the British began colonising large parts of the world.Settlers recreated this metropolitan popular culture throughout the empire and in places under foreign control. They erected music halls resembling those at home, imported songs and sketches, performed inamateur shows and watched touring professionals. London originals were rewritten as commentaries on local conditions. This activity transformed music hall into a marker of an exclusionary British identity overseas and made colonies look and sound more like Britain. The result was that settlers separated by vast distances were linked by a shared popular culture. The touring circuits and cultural affinities the Victorians created endure to this day.
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