music hall

(noun)

Music Hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment which was popular between 1850 and 1960. It involved a mixture of popular song, comedy, speciality acts and variety entertainment.

Related Terms

  • concert saloon

Examples of music hall in the following topics:

  • Saloon Culture

    • The concert saloon was an American copy of the English music hall, and the forerunner of the variety and vaudeville theater.
    • The concert saloon, an American copy of the English music hall, was the forerunner of the variety and vaudeville theater.
    • Music hall entertainment continued after the war, but became less popular due to the emergence of Jazz, Swing and Big Band musical acts.
    • As modern day variety shows became more and more popular, Music hall entertainment was deemed unfashionable.
    • Many music halls were closed as a result.
  • Good News from Sioux Falls

    • That enterprise is the South Dakota Hall of Fame.
    • Halls of fame are plentiful in the United States.
    • In the business arena, there's even an Accounting Hall of Fame.
    • Several states run specialized halls of fame—for instance, the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, the Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame, the Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame, the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, and the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame.
    • Texas has individual halls of fame for science and technology, country music, film, radio, law enforcement torch running, and sports.
  • Glossary of Atonal Musical Terms

  • Analyzing 12-Tone Music

  • Syncopation in Pop/Rock Music

  • Harmony in Pop/Rock Music

  • Form in Pop/Rock Music

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  • Flappers

    • Flappers were the personification of a new spirit in fashion, dance and music in the 1920s.
    • They personified the musical and dance movements emerging from the dance clubs playing Jazz and new versions of old music, which became enormously popular in the 1920s and into the early 1930s.
    • Jazz and other new musical and dance forms exploded onto society in the 1920s.
    • In the flapper period, dance music took parts of various existing musical styles and created a new form.
    • A brief Black Bottom craze, originating from the Apollo Theater, swept dance halls from 1926 to 1927, replacing the Charleston in popularity.
  • Student Subcultures

    • Youth music genres are associated with many youth subcultures; among them are punks, emos, ravers, Juggalos, metalheads and goths.
    • Youth music genres are associated with many youth subcultures, and include punks, emos, ravers, Juggalos, metalheads and goths .
    • The study of subcultures often consists of the study of the symbolism attached to clothing, music and other visible affections by members of the subculture.
    • Scenes are distinguished from the broad culture through either fashion, identification with specific (sometimes obscure or experimental) musical genres or political perspectives, and a strong in-group or tribal mentality.
    • Stuart Hall and Tony Jefferson described youth subcultures as symbolic or ritualistic attempts to resist the power of bourgeois hegemony by consciously adopting behavior that appears threatening to the establishment.
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