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The Britannia Panopticon Music Hall and Cosmopolitan Entertainment Culture

The Britannia Panopticon Music Hall and Cosmopolitan Entertainment Culture

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History

AnthropologyGeneral ScienceTheater History

ISBN10: 1137479094
ISBN13: 9781137479099
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Oct 13 2016
Pages: 273
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.05 Depth: 8.65
Language: English

Focusing on Glasgow's earliest surviving music hall, the Britannia, later the Panopticon, this book explores the role of one of the city's most iconic cultural venues within the cosmopolitan entertainment market that emerged in British cities in the nineteenth century. Shedding light on the increasing diversity of commercial entertainment provided by such venues - offering everything from music hall, early cinema and amateur nights to waxworks, menageries and freak shows - this study also encompasses the model of community-based, working-class music hall which characterised the Panopticon's later years, challenging narratives of the primacy of city centre variety.

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