TY - BOOK AU - Bailey, Peter TI - Music hall : : the business of pleasure T2 - Popular music in Britain SN - 0335152783 : PY - 1986/// CY - Milton Keynes PB - Open University Press KW - Music hall KW - England N1 - 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 ER -