Peter Bailey

Bio: Peter Bailey is an academic researcher from University of Manitoba. The author has contributed to research in topics: Music hall & Entertainment. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 17 publications receiving 704 citations.

Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City

Abstract: Introduction: social history, cultural studies and the cad 1. The Victorian middle class and the problem of leisure 2. A role analysis of working-class respectability 3. Ally Soper's half-holiday: comic art in the 1880s 4. Business and good fellowship in the London music hall 5. Champagne Charlie and the music hall swell song: 6. Music-hall and the knowingness of popular culture 7. The Victorian barmaid as cultural prototype 8. Musical comedy and the rhetoric of the girl, 1892-1914 9. Breaking the sound barrier Notes Index.

Conspiracies of meaning: music-hall and the knowingness of popular culture

Abstract: Knowingness might be defined as what everybody knows, but some know better than others. At once complicit and discriminatory, this popular mode of expression was frequently noted by middle-class commentators as a distinctive — and objectionable — feature of comic performance in nineteenth-century British music-halls. This essay argues that a more specific and articulated account of the phenomenon can contribute to a more satisfactory explanation of how music-hall engaged with its public. Treating knowingness as discourse and practice enables us to get inside the dynamics of this influential modern cultural form. It suggests too how spoken (and unspoken) language functioned as a prime resource in the "mobile infinity of tactics" that constituted everyday life.

Music hall: the business of pleasure

Abstract: Introduction: making sense of music hall building the halls a community of friends - business and good fellowship in London music hall management, circa 1860-1885 provincial music hall - promoters and public in Leicester, 1863-1929 the composition of music hall audiences, 1850-1900 "managers in a small way" - the professionalization of variety artistes, 1860-1914 "it was not what she said, but the way in which she said it" - the LCC and the halls -a triumph for state regulation? Manchester morality and London capital - the battle over the Palace of Varieties.

Bibliography “Food as Heritage”

Abstract: The following bibliography is conceived as a selection of international literature on food as heritage and as a marker of identity within the huge amount of works recently produced on the topic of food. The bibliography has been produced within the “Food as heritage” project, performed at University of Bologna and coordinated by Ilaria Porciani, with a team composed by Massimo Montanari, Paolo Capuzzo, Raffaele Laudani and Marica Tolomelli. “Food as heritage” is part of a wider projec...

Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism

Abstract: The British Industrial Revolution triggered a socioeconomic transformation whereby the landowning aristocracy was replaced by industrial capitalists rising from the middle classes as the economically dominant group. We propose a theory of preference formation under financial market imperfections that can account for this pattern. Parents shape their children’s preferences in response to economic incentives. Middle-class families in occupations requiring effort, skill, and experience develop patience and a work ethic, whereas upper-class families relying on rental income cultivate a refined taste for leisure. These class-specific attitudes, which are rooted in the nature of preindustrial professions, become key determinants of success once industrialization transforms the economic landscape. I. INTRODUCTION The Industrial Revolution was more than capital accumulation and growth. It also set off a social and political transformation that redefined hierarchies in society and reshaped the distribution of income and wealth. Before the onset of industrialization in eighteenth-century Britain, wealth and political power were associated with the possession of land. Over the course of the nineteenth century, a new class of entrepreneurs and businessmen emerged as the economic elite. For the most part, the members of this class rose from humble beginnings and had their social origins in the urban middle classes. The landed elite was left behind and eventually lost its political and economic predominance. Many observers of the time linked this reversal in economic fortunes to differences in values, attitudes, and ultimately preferences across social classes. There are countless examples, both in scholarly and in fictional writing, of portrayals of members of the landowning class as averse to work, unwilling to save, ill-disposed tocommercialactivity,andunabletoconsidermoneyassomething

Current bibliography of urban history

Abstract: This bibliography is a continuation of and a complement to those published in the Urban History Yearbook 1974–91 and Urban History 1992–2002. The arrangement and format closely follows that of previous years. There is an index of towns on pp. 504–507. The list of abbreviations identifies only those periodicals from which articles cited this year have been taken.

Association Football and English Society, 1863-1915.

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