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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)
- Champagne Charlie (1867) Lyrics by George Leybourne, music by Alfred Lee
- Comrades Lyrics and music by Felix McGlennon
- Cushie Butterfield (1864) — a parody of Pretty Polly Perkins Lyrics by George Ridley and music by H. Clifton, arranged by J. Candy, c. 1864
- Daddy’s on the Engine (1895) Music and lyrics by Charles Graham
- If It Wasn't for the 'Ouses in Between (1894) Lyrics by Edgar Bateman, music by George Le Brunn
- Immenseikoff (c. 1895) Music and lyrics by A. Lloyd
- MacDermott's War Song" (1877) Written and composed by G. W. Hunt
- My Old Dutch: A Cockney Song (sung by Albert Chevalier, 1911)
- Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington Green (1863) Lyrics and music by H. Clifton, arranged by J. Candy
- Work, Boys, Work and Be Contented" (c.1865) Lyrics by H. Clifton, music by G.F. Root
Music Hall Performers
The Music Hall, Society, and Politics
- Music halls a vehicle for bourgeois morality and values
- The music hall an arena for negotiation between working-class and middle-class values.
- Music halls and jingoism
- The Music-Hall Cockney: Flesh and Blood, or Replicant?
- Music Hall: Regulations and Behaviour in a British Cultural Institution
The Music Hall and Literature
- The Music Hall Cockney and Dickens’s Pickwick Papers
- Max Beerbohm's praise of the Music Hall
- Irish Nationalism, British Imperialism, and Popular Son
The Music Hall and the Visual Arts
- Representations by Gustave Doré
- Walter Sickert, The Old Bedford Music Hall
Resources
- "A review of Paul Maloney’s Scotland and the Music Hall, 1850—1914
- A Bibliography of books about British music hall and variety
Last modified 15 April 2024