Music hall : the business of pleasure /
edited by Peter Bailey.
- Milton Keynes : Open University Press, 1986.
- 166 p. : ill. ; 23cm.
- Popular music in Britain .
Includes index.
Introduction: making sense of music hall / Peter Bailey -- Building the halls / John Earl -- A community of friends: business and good fellowship in London music hall management, c. 1860-1885 / Peter Bailey -- Provincial music hall: promoters and public in Leicester / Jeremy Crump -- The composition of music hall audiences, 1850-1900 / Dagmar Höher -- 'Managers in a small way': the professionalism of variety artistes, 1860-1914 / Lois Rutherford -- 'It was not what she said, but the way in which she said it': the London County Council and the music halls / Susan Pennybacker -- Manchester morality and London capital: the battle over the palace of varieties / Chris Waters