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

by Barry J . Faulk (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2004

  $65.64

  The late-Victorian discovery of the music hall by English intellectuals marks a crucial moment in the history of popular culture. This book demonstrates how such 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.