Welcome. Issue five is Now Available

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In the next edition of Music Hall Studies, due out next winter, we examine the party politics of music hall as seen in the songs of G.H. MacDermott; a full biography of Parker PC, also known as Charles Austin; and a complete account of the master illustrator of sheet music, Alfred Concanen. In addition, we examine music hall’s links with horse racing and offer a round-up of music hall critiques written by the highly perceptive Max Beerbohm.

 

 

 

Music Hall Studies is a twice yearly non-profit making journal devoted to furthering research into music hall and the variety theatre.

The fifth issue, available now, examines an unrivalled comedian of the variety theatre, Jimmy James, whose sketches are fondly remembered 45 years after his death -- his routine about a drunken bridegroom played so brilliantly in spite of the fact that Jimmy was teetotal and that inspired piece of nonsense about wild animals being carried around in a box. From an earlier generation, there are detailed accounts of the comic singer, Harry Rickards, who had some success in Britain, but who enjoyed even more as the man who single-handedly constructed the music hall theatre in Australia  --  and his friend, the hard-working, hard-drinking Charles Godfrey, who was the first to present dramatic and patriotic scenas on the music hall stage.

And we are proud to welcome to our regular team of writers, Barry Anthony, Britain's foremost authority on music hall on film.

Within the UK, the price of Music Hall Studies is £7.00 including post and package. To other EU countries, the price is £9.50 and to the USA, Canada and Australia, £11.00

Due to popular demand, the initial run of issues one and two have sold out.  However we are getting a limited second run printed, for further details on how to purchase these, please contact us.