Music Hall
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The Victorian Music Hall
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Author : Dagmar Kift
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1996-10-24
The Victorian Music Hall written by Dagmar Kift and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-10-24 with Drama categories.
With the exception of the occasional local case study, music-hall history has until now been presented as the history of the London halls. This book attempts to redress the balance by setting music-hall history within a national perspective. Kift also sheds a new light on the roles of managements, performers and audiences. For example, the author confutes the commonly held assumption that most women in the halls were prostitutes and shows them to have been working women accompanied by workmates of both sexes or by their families. She argues that before the 1890s the halls catered predominantly to working-class and lower middle-class audiences of men and women of all ages and were instrumental in giving them a strong and self-confident identity. The hall's ability to sustain a distinct class-awareness was one of their greatest strengths - but this factor was also at the root of many of the controversies which surrounded them. These controversies are at the centre of the book and Kift treats them as test cases for social relations which provide fresh insights into nineteenth-century British society and politics.
The Music Hall Portsmouth
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Author : Zhana Morris
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2003-01-01
The Music Hall Portsmouth written by Zhana Morris and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-01 with History categories.
On Christmas Eve 1876, Portsmouth citizens watched flames reduce their largest meetinghouse and entertainment hall to ashes. During the following year, local families, businessmen, and craftsmen combined their resources to build a new auditorium with state-of-the-art lighting, rigging, staging, and seating-a comfortable venue for public addresses, charity functions, and international entertainment. The Music Hall, Portsmouth, was born. Twain spoke from her stage, Sousa's brass echoed from her walls, and Edison's films brought her silver screen to life. Enduring war, depression, and multiple threats of destruction, this grand hall today stands as New Hampshire's oldest operating theater. Showcasing the world's finest stage and screen talent, offering artistic education to young and old, and hosting fundraisers and private events, the Music Hall is a testament to the necessity of arts in local culture and the strength of a community's resolve.
Music Hall
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Author : Jacqueline S. Bratton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Music Hall written by Jacqueline S. Bratton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Music categories.
British Music Hall
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Author : Richard Anthony Baker
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2014-05-31
British Music Hall written by Richard Anthony Baker and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-31 with History categories.
The music hall ...had no place for reticence; it was downright, it shouted, it made noise, it enjoyed itself and made the people enjoy themselves as well.' W.J. MACQUEEN POPE??Music Hall lies at the root of all modern popular entertainment. With stars such as Marie Lloyd, Harry Lauder and Dan Leno, it reached its glorious, brassy height between 1890 and the First World War. In the first book on this subject for many years, Richard Anthony Baker whisks us off on a colourful and nostalgic tour of the rise and fall of British music hall.??At the beginning of the nineteenth century people sang traditional songs in taverns for entertainment. This was so popular that rooms started to be added to inns for shows to be staged, and, before long, songs were being specially composed and purpose-built theatres were springing up everywhere. ??Britain's working class had, for the first time, its own form of public entertainment and its own breed of stars. The colour and vitality attracted serious writers and artists, as well as the future Edward VII, and music hall became simultaneously the haunt of the working classes and the avant-garde.??Including stories of a clergyman who wrote music-hall sketches, a hall in Glasgow where luckless entertainers were pulled off stage by a long hooked pole, and Cockney dictionaries that helped Americans understand touring British performers, this book is a hugely engaging slice of social history, rich in humour, tragedy and bathos.??As featured on BBC Radio Lincolnshire and in the Sunderland Echo.
Music Hall Portsmouth
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Author : Zhana Morris
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Library Editions
Release Date : 2003-07
Music Hall Portsmouth written by Zhana Morris and has been published by Arcadia Library Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07 with History categories.
On Christmas Eve 1876, Portsmouth citizens watched flames reduce their largest meetinghouse and entertainment hall to ashes. During the following year, local families, businessmen, and craftsmen combined their resources to build a new auditorium with state-of-the-art lighting, rigging, staging, and seating-a comfortable venue for public addresses, charity functions, and international entertainment. The Music Hall, Portsmouth, was born. Twain spoke from her stage, Sousa's brass echoed from her walls, and Edison's films brought her silver screen to life. Enduring war, depression, and multiple threats of destruction, this grand hall today stands as New Hampshire's oldest operating theater. Showcasing the world's finest stage and screen talent, offering artistic education to young and old, and hosting fundraisers and private events, the Music Hall is a testament to the necessity of arts in local culture and the strength of a community's resolve.
In A Music Hall
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Author : John Davidson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
In A Music Hall written by John Davidson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with categories.
Mr Punch S Model Music Hall Songs Dramas
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Author : F. Anstey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892
Mr Punch S Model Music Hall Songs Dramas written by F. Anstey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with Revues categories.
Music Hall
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Author : Roy Hudd
language : en
Publisher: Methuen Publishing
Release Date : 1976
Music Hall written by Roy Hudd and has been published by Methuen Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Performing Arts categories.
British Music Hall 1840 1923
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Author : Laurence Senelick
language : en
Publisher: Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books
Release Date : 1981
British Music Hall 1840 1923 written by Laurence Senelick and has been published by Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Music categories.
Music Hall How A City Built A Theater And A Theater Shaped A City
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Author : J. Dennis Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Great Life Press
Release Date : 2019-10-28
Music Hall How A City Built A Theater And A Theater Shaped A City written by J. Dennis Robinson and has been published by Great Life Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-28 with History categories.
Portsmouth's historic Music Hall has welcomed the best from Victorian superstars Buffalo Bill, Tom Thumb, and Mark Twain to today's top musicians, comics, authors, and performers. Built in 1878, expanded by Frank Jones in 1901, the theater's spacious stage and phenomenal acoustics have made it one of the finest venues in New England. Within these brick walls generations have seen America evolve from minstrel shows and silent films to jaw-dropping musicals and Hollywood blockbusters, from animal acts to symphony orchestras, and from vaudeville slapstick to provocative Ted talks. Behind the scenes, the Music Hall story is a wild ride from thriving to barely surviving and back. Fully researched, artfully written, and richly illustrated, this volume is a must-read for anyone who cherishes the performing arts.Shuttered and decaying during World War II, New Hampshire's vintage venue went on the auction block in 1945. Recast as the Civic, it served as a movie house for the next four decades. Following two failed revivals in the 1980s, the century-old structure came close to being turned into condominiums. Saved from demolition by a grassroots team of volunteers, the nonprofit Friends of the Music Hall launched an unprecedented $13.5 million capital campaign. Signature programs like the "Telluride by the Sea" film festival and "Writers on a New England Stage" have put New Hampshire's historic theater on the national map. Today the restored Music Hall delivers hundreds of diverse cultural events annually, both in the historic 900-seat hall and in its modern new Loft stage nearby. Digging even deeper, this book traces the development of the performing arts in Portsmouth from the arrival of its first settlers. We glimpse the city's colonial gentry partying at the Assembly House, hear the shrill sounds of early church singers, and wander the "lewd amusements" of a post-Revolutionary seaport. We watch as an acre of forest land is transformed from an almshouse and prison to a church, a temperance hall, a public lyceum and a theater. And we discover how that beloved theater--called "the beating heart of cultural Portsmouth"-has shaped the city that built and preserved it.