TY  - GEN
T1  - World of popular entertainments : an edited volume of critical essays
A2  - Arrighi, Gillian.
A2  - Emeljanow, Victor.
LA  - English
PP  - Newcastle upon Tyne
PB  - Cambridge Scholars Pub.
YR  - 2012
UL  - https://colectivo.uloyola.es/Record/ELB146607
AB  - "Despite the vibrant, complex, and ubiquitous nature of popular entertainments, the field has suffered from a lack of sustained academic attention. Nevertheless, popular entertainments have a global reach and a transnational significance at odds with the fact that the meaning and definition of both 'popular' and 'entertainment' remain widely contested. Since the late-nineteenth century, class-based prejudices in Western culture have championed the superiority of art and literature over the dubious and fleeting pleasures of 'entertainment.' Similarly, the term 'popular' has carried pejorative connotations, indicating something common and outside the conventional and highbrow productions of the purpose-built theatre house or concert hall"--Publisher.
OP  - 279
NO  - "This volume is the direct result of a conference which was hosted by the School of Drama, Fine Art and Music at the University of Newcastle, Australia, in June 2009"-- p. [ix].
CN  - GV45 .W67 2012
KW  - Entertainment events : History and criticism.
KW  - Amusements : History and criticism.
KW  - Popular culture : History and criticism.
KW  - Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) : History and criticism.
KW  - Theater : History.
KW  - Electronic books.
ER  -