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British Music Hall: An Illustrated History
 
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British Music Hall: An Illustrated History (Hardcover)

by Richard Anthony Baker (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: The History Press Ltd (20 Oct 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0750936851
  • ISBN-13: 978-0750936859
  • Product Dimensions: 24.6 x 17.4 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 275,794 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #38 in  Books > Music, Stage & Screen > Performing Arts > Variety Shows & Cabaret
    #50 in  Books > Music, Stage & Screen > Music > History of Music

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Music-hall lies at the root of all modern popular entertainment. It grew from the songs that people sang for their own entertainment in taverns at the start of the nineteenth century. Within a few years rooms were added to inns for shows to be staged. Instead of folk songs and traditional airs, songs were specially composed for music-hall's first professional singers. Purpose-built theatres sprang up everywhere and became big business. Britain's working class had for the first time its own form of public entertainment and its own breed of stars. The professional classes found it tawdry and meretricious but serious writers and artists - because of its vitality and colour - were much taken by it and it became simultaneously the haunt of the working classes and the avant-garde, including the Prince of Wales (the future Edward VII). With a wonderful roll-call of names - Marie Lloyd, Lottie Collins, Harry Lauder and Little Tich - and the songs that have made an indelible impression - I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside, Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay - Richard Anthony Baker's book is more than a nostalgic glimpse of a world now passed away. It is a hugely engaging slice of social history, rich in humour, tragedy and bathos

About the Author
Richard Anthony Baker is the son of a one-time music-hall comedian. Will Keogh, a former BBC News Assistant Editor, his many radio programmes include comedy scripts for 'Week Ending', a series on music-hall and his own weekly programme for BBC, Radio Five. He is also the author of 'Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music-halls.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Good Old Days, 30 May 2008
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I recently borrowed this book from my local library. I have been doing research into my Great-Uncle who was a music hall performer (Happy Tom Parker). I found the book excellent as a work of reference and it gave me a great in-sight into the world of the music hall and although it does not mention my great-uncle I thoroughly enjoyed it. I will probably end up buying it as a work of reference.
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