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Overview
Lively and innovative, these well-illustrated essays on the making of the Victorian entertainment industry get inside the popular experience of the pub, music-hall, theater and comic press. In this new leisure world, audiences learned how to be performers themselves, adopting roles and styles appropriate to the unsettling dynamics of the modern city. A major advance in understanding how popular culture actually works, this is a model of the successful integration of the theory and practice of social history and cultural studies.
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- ISBN-13: 9780521574174
- ISBN-10: 052157417X
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: October 1998
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.75 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.25 pounds
- Page Count: 272
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