Entertaining the empire: london music hall and the export of britishness
Auteur :
Horrall, Andrew
Éditeur :
Manchester University Press
ISBN :
9781526188892
Date de publication :
28 oct. 2025
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 x 1,7 cm
Poids :
582 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Comic songs and sketches created in London traversed the British empire in the half century before the First World War. The amateurs and professionals who performed them in colonial venues resemblingthose at Home transformed an inane popular culture into a bulwark of an increasingly racialised British overseas identity. -- .