The comedy and legacy of music-hall women 1880-1920: brazen impudence and boisterous vulgarity
- Submitting institution
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Middlesex University
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 1531
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1007/978-3-030-47941-1
- Publisher
- Palgrave MacMillian
- ISBN
- 9783030479404
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/31328/
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph investigates women’s contributions to late-19th and early-20th century comic performance practices on the popular music-hall stage. It emerges from a lengthy period of data collection from a substantial range of primary historical sources which had not previously been collated. Here this archive material is subjected to a critical engagement through performance and cultural histories, feminist theory, and humour and comedy studies. The monograph synthesises this material, creating a series of micro-histories of previously forgotten performers and identifying a continuum of female practice, drawing parallels between Victorian/Edwardian artists and contemporary comedians and performance contexts.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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