The Victorian Music Hall: Culture, Class and Conflict

Contents

• Part I . The English Music Hall:
• 1. History;
• 2. The music-hall programme;
• 3. The audience;
• Part II . Cultures in Conflict:
• 4. 1840-1865: rivalry in leisure;
• 5. 1860-1877: the 'demon drink';
• 6. 1875-1888: programmes and purifiers;
• 7. The special case of London, 1840-1888;
• 8. Controversies in the 1890s.