The Victorian and Edwardian Music Hall

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General

• Introduction: the Victorian and Edwardian Music Hall
• A Sampling of Music Hall Songs and their Composers
• Max Beerbohm on Music Halls

Individual Songs (recordings)

• H. Clifton (arranged by J. Candy), “Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington Green” (1863)
• George Ridley (attributed), “Cushie Butterfield&rdquo (1864) — a parody of “Pretty Polly Perkins”
• G. W. Hunt, "MacDermott's War Song" (1877)
• Albert Chevalier, "My Old Dutch: A Cockney Song"
• Edgar Bateman and George Le Brunn, "If It Wasn't for the 'Ouses in Between"
• George Leybourne and Alfred Lee, "Champagne Charlie" (1867)

The Music Hall, Society, and Politics

• Music halls a vehicle for bourgeois morality and values
• Music halls and jingoism

The Music Hall and Literature

• Max Beerbohm's praise of the Music Hall

The Music Hall and the Visual Arts

• Representations by Gustave Doré
• Walter Sickhert, The Old Bedford Music Hall

Resources

• A Bibliography of books about British music hall and variety

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Last modified 6 December 2011