TY - BOOK ID - 77902517 TI - Music hall & modernity PY - 2004 SN - 0821441396 9780821441398 0821415859 9780821415856 082142095X 9780821420959 PB - Athens Ohio University Press DB - UniCat KW - Popular culture in literature. KW - Performing arts in literature. KW - Popular culture KW - Performing arts KW - English literature KW - Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) KW - Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) in literature. KW - Culture, Popular KW - Mass culture KW - Pop culture KW - Popular arts KW - Communication KW - Intellectual life KW - Mass society KW - Recreation KW - Culture KW - Show business KW - Arts KW - Performance art KW - Cabarets KW - Café theater KW - Concert gardens KW - Concert rooms KW - Concert saloons KW - Variety shows (Theater) KW - Variety-theaters KW - Theaters KW - Vaudeville KW - History KW - History and criticism. KW - London (England) KW - In literature. KW - Littérature anglaise KW - Music-halls KW - 19e siècle KW - Histoire et critique KW - Dans la littérature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77902517 AB - The late-Victorian discovery of the music hall by English intellectuals marks a crucial moment in the history of popular culture. Music Hall and Modernity demonstrates how such pioneering 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. These social arbiters were, at the same time, devotees of the spontaneous culture of "the people." In examining fiction from Walter Besant, Hall Caine, and Henry Nevinson, performance criticism from William Arche ER -