PECI5217M
Module Reading List
Dr Philip Kiszely
P.Kiszely@leeds.ac.uk
Tutor information is taken from the Module Catalogue
PECI 5217 Popular Performance: From Music Hall to Variety Television
Reading List
Historiography, Methods, Theories
Bennett, Judith (2006) History Matters: patriarchy and the challenge of feminism
Bentley, Michael (2002) Companion to Historiography
Car, E.H. (1961) What is History?
Derrida, J. (1967) Speech and Phenomena
Foucault, M. (1969) The Archaeology of Knowledge
Iggers, George (2012) Historiography in the Twentieth Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge
Karenga, Maulana (2002) Introduction to Black Studies
Mahmood, Saba (2004) Women’s Agency within Feminist Historiography, The Journal of Religion, Vol.84 (4), p.573-579
Oakeshott, Michael (1983) On history and Other Essays
Oakeshott, Michael (2004) What is history? and Other Essays
Peniston-Bird, Corinna & Barber, Sarah (eds) (2020) Approaching Historical Sources: Space, Time and Performance
Said, Edward (1978) Orientalism
Spalding, Roger & Parker, Christopher (2007) Historiography: an introduction
Spongberg, Mary (2002) Writing Women's History since the Renaissance
Stunkel, Kenneth R (2011) Fifty key works of History and Historiography
Tamm, Marek & Burke, Peter (2019) Debating New Approaches to History
Winks, Robin (1999) Historiography
Cultural History
Cannadine, David (2018) Victorious century: the United Kingdom 1800-1906
Dentith, Simon (1998) Society and Cultural Forms in Nineteenth Century England
Hall, Lesley (2013) Sex, Gender and Social Change in Britain Since 1880
Hands, Thora (2018) Drinking in Victorian and Edwardian Britain: Beyond the Spectre of the Drunkard
Milne-Smith, Amy (2011) London Clubland: A Cultural History of Gender and Class in late-Victorian Britain
Morris, Jan (1978) Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat
Newsome, David (1997) The Victorian world Picture: perceptions and introspections in an age of change
Olusoga, David (2017) Black and British: a forgotten history
Panayi, Panikos (2016) An immigration history of Britain: multicultural racism since 1800
Porter, Bernard (2004) The Absent-minded Imperialists: empire, society, and culture in Britain
Qureshi, Sadiah (2011) Peoples on Parade: exhibitions, empire, and anthropology in nineteenth-century Britain
Robbins, Keith (1988) Nineteenth-century Britain: integration and diversity
Storey, John (2016) The Making of English Popular Culture
Teukolsky, Rachel (2020) Picture World: Image, Aesthetics, and Victorian New Media
Viktorin, Carolin (et al) eds (2018) Nation branding in Modern History
Yallop, Jacqueline (2012) Magpies, squirrels & Thieves: how the Victorians collected the world
Music Hall
Agate, James (1945) Immoment Toys: a survey of light entertainment on the London stage, 1920-1943
Bailey, Peter (1986) Music Hall: The Business of Pleasure
Bailey, Peter (1994) Conspiracies of Meaning: Music-Hall and the Knowingness of Popular Culture, Past & Present, (144), p.138-170
Banks, Morwenna & Swift, Amanda (1987) The joke's on us: women in comedy from music hall to the present day
Barker, Kathleen (1979) Early Music Hall in Bristol
Bratton, J. S. (1986) Music Hall: Performance and Style
Busby, Roy (1976) British Music Hall: an illustrated who's who from 1850 to the present day
Cheshire, David (1974) Music Hall in Britain
Davison, Peter Hobley. (1971) Songs of the British Music Hall
Gammond, Peter (1972) Best Music Hall and Variety Songs
Garrett, John M. (1976) Sixty Years of British Music Hall
Gerrard, Steven (2013) The Great British Music Hall: Its Importance to British Culture and ‘The Trivial’, Culture Unbound, Vol.5, p.487-514
Gray, Margaret E (2012) Cross-undressing in Colette: Performance, gender and music-hall labour practice, French Cultural Studies, Vol.23 (3), p.202-214
Green, Benny (1986) The Last Empires: a music hall companion
Farson, Daniel (1972) Marie Lloyd & Music Hall
Faulk, Barry (2004) Music Hall and Modernity: the late Victorian discovery of popular culture
Faulk, Barry (2013) The Bedford Music Hall, Victorian Review, Vol.39 (1), p.44-50
Francis, Barrie (2016) The Licensing of the Birmingham Music Halls, Theatre Notebook, Vol.70 (3), p.170-183
Harding, James (1990) George Robey & the Music Hall
Holloway, Myles (1997) Music Hall in Johannesburg: 1886-1896, South African Theatre Journal, Vol.11 (1), p.13-54
Huxley, David & David, James (2012) No other excuse: Race, class and gender in British Music Hall comedic performance 1914-1949, Comedy Studies, Vol.3 (1), p.17-28
Huxley, David & James, David (2013) Women used to be funny: Music Hall and the threat of cinema, 1911-49, Early Popular Visual Culture, Vol.11 (3), p.191-20
Jackson, Jeffrey (2000) Music-Halls and the Assimilation of Jazz in 1920s Paris, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol.34 (2), p.69-82
Kift, Dagmar (1996) The Victorian Music Hall: culture, class, and conflict
Loudon, Andrew (no date) The Amazing Story of Leeds City Varieties
MacQueen-Pope, W. (1951) The Melodies Linger On: The Story of Music Hall
Major, John (2012) My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall
Maloney, Paul (2009) ‘Flying down the Saltmarket’: The Irish on the Glasgow Music Hall Stage, Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, Vol.36 (1), p.11-36
Newton, H. Chance (1975) Idols of the "Halls": being my music hall memories
Ó Tuairisc, Eoghan & Murtagh, Matthew (1975) Infinite Variety: Dan Lowrey's music hall, 1879-97
Senelick, Laurence (1981) British Music Hall, 1840-1923: A bibliography and guide to sources, with a supplement on European music hall
Senelick, Laurence (1997) Tavern Singing in Early Victorian London: the diaries of Charles Rice for 1840 & 1850
Scott, Derek (2002) The Music‐Hall Cockney: Flesh and Blood, or Replicant?, Music & Letters, Vol.83 (2), p.237-259
Scott, Harold (1946) The Early Doors: Origins of the Music Hall
Settle Amateur Operatic Society (1988) Settle's Victorian Music Hall
Somerville, Kristine (2018) You Wouldn't Know Her from a Man: Male Impersonators of the Victorian Music Halls, The Missouri Review, Vol.41 (4), p.83-93
Speaight, George (1977) Bawdy Songs of the Early Music Hall
Sutcliffe, Allan (2006) From Devonshire House to the Bull Ring. Birmingham: A Dickensian Contribution to the Music Hall, Dickensian, Vol.102 (468), p.21
Tich, Mary & Findlater, Richard (1979) Little Tich: Giant of the Music Hall
Till, Nicholas (2004) ‘First-Class Evening Entertainments’: Spectacle and Social Control in a Mid-Victorian Music Hall, New Theatre Quarterly, Vol.20 (1), p.3-18
Television
Bailey, Michael 92009) Narrating Media History
Carpenter, Humphrey (2002) A Great Silly Grin: The British Satire Boom of the 1960s
Corner, John (1991) Popular Television in Britain: Studies in Cultural History
Corner, John (1999) Critical Ideas in Television Studies
Corner, John (2003) Finding Data, Reading Patterns, Telling Stories: Issues in the Historiography of Television, Media, Culture & Society, Vol.25 (2), p.273-280
Holmes, Su (2007) The BBC and television fame in the 1950s, European Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol.10 (4), p.427-445
Holmes, Su (2008) Entertaining Television: the BBC and popular television culture in the 1950s
Irwin, Mary (2013) Doreen Stephens: Producing and Managing British Television in the 1950s and 1960s, Journal of British Cinema and Television, Vol.10 (3), p.618-634
Jacobs, Jason (ed) (2013) Television Aesthetics and Style
Medhurst, Jamie (2017) What a Hullabaloo! Launching BBC Television in 1936 and BBC2 in 1964, Journal of British Cinema and Television, vo. 14, No. 3: pp. 264-282
Mundy, John (2008) Spreading Wisdom: British post-war light entertainment, the BBC and the emergence of television, Media History, Vol.14 (1), p.53-71
Purcell, Jennifer (2018) 'Enthusiasm, Experiment and Gallantry in Action': Developing Light Entertainment on the Fledgling BBC, 1922-1932, Cultural and Social History, Vol.15 (3), p.415-432
Scott, Banville (2011) "A Bookkeeper, Not an Accountant": Representing the Lower Middle Class from Victorian Novels and Music-Hall Songs to Television Sitcoms, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol.44 (1), p.16-36
Thumim, Janet (ed) (2001) Small Screens, Big Ideas: Television in the 1950s
Thumim, Janet (2004) Inventing Television Culture: men, women, and the box
White, Rosie (2014) Beryl Reid Says… Good Evening: Performing queer identity on British television, Journal of European Popular Culture, Vol.5 (2), p.165-179
This list was last updated on 01/09/2021