Music hall : performance and style /
edited by J. S. Bratton.
- Milton Keynes : Open University Press, 1986.
- 175 p. ; ill., music 23 cm.
- Popular music in Britain .
Includes index.
Music in the halls / Anthony Bennett -- Jones and the working girl: class marginality in music-hall song, 1860-1900 / Jane Traies -- Champagne Charlie: performance and ideology in the music-hall swell song / Peter Bailey -- White skin, black masks: 'nigger' minstrelsy in Victorian Britain / Michael Pickering -- Jenny Hill: sex and sexism in Victorian music hall / J. S. Bratton -- Joe Wilson: 'comic dialectical singer' or class traitor? / Dave Harker -- 'Harmless nonsense': the comic sketch and the development of music-hall entertainment / Lois Rutherford