Cultural Identity in British Musical Theatre, 1890–1939

Cultural Identity in British Musical Theatre, 1890–1939
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Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : 9781137598073
ISBN-13 : 1137598077
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Download or read book Cultural Identity in British Musical Theatre, 1890–1939 written by Ben Macpherson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the performance of ‘Britishness’ on the musical stage. Covering a tumultuous period in British history, it offers a fresh look at the vitality and centrality of the musical stage, as a global phenomenon in late-Victorian popular culture and beyond. Through a re-examination of over fifty archival play-scripts, the book comprises seven interconnected stories told in two parts. Part One focuses on domestic and personal identities of ‘Britishness’, and how implicit anxieties and contradictions of nationhood, class and gender were staged as part of the popular cultural condition. Broadening in scope, Part Two offers a revisionary reading of Empire and Otherness on the musical stage, and concludes with a consideration of the Great War and the interwar period, as musical theatre performed a nostalgia for a particular kind of ‘Britishness’, reflecting the anxieties of a nation in decline.


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