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" Musical comedy on the West End stage, 1890-1939 / "
Len Platt.
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BL
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952678
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b707048
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Platt, Len.
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Musical comedy on the West End stage, 1890-1939 /\ Len Platt.
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| Publication Statement
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2004.
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xiv, 207 pages :: illustrations ;; 23 cm
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1403932255
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: 9781403932259
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-199) and index.
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| Contents
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Themes and approaches -- Our sickly age's end : musical comedy and modernity -- Chin chin Chinamen : doing other cultures -- Aristocracy and the cultural politics of modernity -- Interventions in the politics of gender and sexuality -- The decline of West End musical comedy, 1912-1939.
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"This book offers the first full historical treatment of a music theatre that was once at the centre of London's West End. From the late Victorian period to the early 1920s, musical comedy was the single most popular form of 'legitimate' theatre entertainment. This lively account establishes musical comedy as one of the first modern cultures to take on an industrial dimension, both in its production and in terms of the marketing of the shows and their stars. It also offers fascinating insights into how musical comedy, with its confirmation of the British identity and celebrated embracing of the modern condition, functioned as a constitutive culture of the conservative centre."--Jacket.
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Musicals-- Social aspects-- England-- London.
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Comédies musicales-- Aspect social-- Angleterre-- Londres.
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Aufführung
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Musical
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Operette
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Musicals.
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Muziektheater.
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West End (London, England)
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West End (Londres, Angleterre)
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England, London, West End.
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England, London.
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West End
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| Dewey Classification
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782.1/4/09421
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ML3918.M87P55 2004
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24.22bcl
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9,2ssgn
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LR 54130rvk
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LR 54136rvk
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