CULTURAL IDENTITY IN BRITISH MUSICAL THEATRE, 1890-1939 knowing one's place /: knowing one's place. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ben Macpherson.
• Authors: Macpherson, Ben
• Contents: Intro; Permissions; Acknowledgements; Contents; Author's Note; Chapter 1: The British Musical in Seven Stories; A (Very Brief) History of British Musical Theatre; 'Britishness' (According to the English); Knowing One's Place; English Comic Opera; Burlesque; Music Hall; The Arrival of Musical Comedy; References; Part I: Domestic and Personal Identities; Chapter 2: Nation: Modernity and Mythology; Urban Modernity and Rural Tradition; Nation, Union, and the Problems of Modernity; Scotland; Wales; Ireland; England's Domestic 'Others'; References; Chapter 3: Femininity: Cinderellas and Caretakers Commercial Cinderellas and Independence in the Public SphereNew-Woman Cinderellas and the Folly of Deviance; Political Cinderellas and Socialist Silliness; Generational Caretakers and the Status Quo; Paradoxes and Parallels; References; Chapter 4: Manliness: Domesticity and Defence; Husbands; Fathers and Sons; Soldiers; The Everyman; References; Part II: Imperial and Ideological Identities; Chapter 5: Empire: Ornamentalism and Orientalism; Japan and China; India; Europe; Rural Equivalence in Holland and Germany; Ornamental Difference in France and Spain; America Anxiety, Americanisation, and 'Anglobalization'References; Chapter 6: Conflict: Continuity and Change; Broken Continuities; Change, Continuity, and the Revival of Revue; Continuity and Progress in Performances of Gender and Class; Changing Britishness on the Musical Stage; References; Chapter 7: Peace: Nostalgia and Nationhood; New Familiarities, Old Hierarchies; Nostalgia and the Critique of Modernity; Returning to Ruritania: A Domestic Ornamentalism; Sport and Dance on the Interwar Musical Stage; Celebrity, America, and a New British Popular Culture?; Pageantry and Paradox; References Chapter 8: The English Musical in Many StoriesReferences; References; Index
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 305; Group identity -- Great Britain; Musical theater -- Great Britain; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies; Theater; Performing Arts -- Theater -- General; Theatre studies; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137598073; 1137598077
• Related ISBNs: 1137598069; 9781137598066
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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