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While London dominated the wider British music hall in the 19th
century, Glasgow, the Second City of the Empire, was the center of
a vigorous Scottish performing culture, one developed in a
Presbyterian society with a very different experience of industrial
urbanization. It drew heavily on older fairground and traditional
forms in developing its own brand of this new urban entertainment.
The book explores all aspects of the Scottish music hall industry,
from the lives and professional culture of performers and
impresarios to the place of music hall in Scottish life. It also
explores issues of national identity, both in terms of Scottish
audiences' responses to the promotion of imperial themes in songs
and performing material, and in the version of Scottish identity
projected by Lauder and other kilted acts at home and abroad in
America, Canada, Australia and throughout the English-speaking
world.
Focusing on Glasgow's earliest surviving music hall, the Britannia, later the Panopticon, this book explores the role of one of the city's most iconic cultural venues within the cosmopolitan entertainment market that emerged in British cities in the nineteenth century. Shedding light on the increasing diversity of commercial entertainment provided by such venues - offering everything from music hall, early cinema and amateur nights to waxworks, menageries and freak shows - this study also encompasses the model of community-based, working-class music hall which characterised the Panopticon's later years, challenging narratives of the primacy of city centre variety. Providing a comprehensive analysis of this dynamic popular theatre of the industrial age, Maloney examines the role of the hall's managers, marketing and promotional strategies, audiences, and performing genres from the hall's opening in 1859 until final closure in 1938. The book also explores stage representations of Irish and Jewish immigrant communities present in surrounding city centre areas, demonstrating the Britannia's diasporic links to other British cities and centres in North America, thus providing a multifaceted and pioneering account of this still extant Victorian music hall.
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