Intervention
in seminar on popular music, Université de Poitiers, 2010
in seminar on popular music, Université de Poitiers, 2010
From the
point of view of the history of popular music, late British music hall is a
hybrid phenomenon. We can already see a number of the characteristics of later
pop music – the star system, and the mix of romance, humour and realism as
themes, for example. But on many key points there are differences. The live
show and the sheet music are still at the centre of popular music’s influence –
records are still marginal, and of course radio broadcasting remains far in the
future.
point of view of the history of popular music, late British music hall is a
hybrid phenomenon. We can already see a number of the characteristics of later
pop music – the star system, and the mix of romance, humour and realism as
themes, for example. But on many key points there are differences. The live
show and the sheet music are still at the centre of popular music’s influence –
records are still marginal, and of course radio broadcasting remains far in the
future.
The
music-hall milieu of this time is committed to an almost obsessive search for
legitimacy in the eyes of social elites. Our contribution will explore this
search. We will try to define the nature of the desired legitimacy, and its
relationship to respectability, a
crucial ideological weapon of the elites of the time. Click below.
music-hall milieu of this time is committed to an almost obsessive search for
legitimacy in the eyes of social elites. Our contribution will explore this
search. We will try to define the nature of the desired legitimacy, and its
relationship to respectability, a
crucial ideological weapon of the elites of the time. Click below.
Legitimacy and Respectability in Late British Music hall. | John Mullen - Academia.edu
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