Popular Musical Theatre in London and Berlin: 1890 to 1939

doi:10.1017/CBO9781107279681

In the decades before the Second World War, popular musical theatre was one of the most influential forms of entertainment. This is the first book to reconstruct early popular musical theatre as a transnational and highly cosmopolitan industry that included everything from revues and operettas to dance halls and cabaret. Bringing together contributors from Britain and Germany, this collection moves beyond national theatre histories to study Anglo-German relations at a period of intense hostility and rivalry. Chapters frame the entertainment zones of London and Berlin against the wider trading routes of cultural transfer, where empire and transatlantic song and dance produced, perhaps for the first time, a genuinely international culture. Exploring adaptations and translations of works under the influence of political propaganda, this collection will be of interest both to musical theatre enthusiasts and to those interested in the wider history of modernism.

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Popular Musical Theatre in London and Berlin - Half title page
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Popular Musical Theatre in London and Berlin - Title page
pp iii-iii
1890–1939
- By Len Platt, Tobias Becker, David Linton
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Copyright page
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Contents
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Figures
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Contributors
pp viii-xi
- By Peter Bailey, Tobias Becker, Stefan Frey, Viv Gardner, Nils Grosch, Matthias Kauffmann, Kerstin Lange, Susann Lewerenz, Marion Linhardt, David Linton, Len Platt, Derek B. Scott, Carolin Stahrenberg
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Acknowledgements
pp xii-xiii
- By Tobias Becker, David Linton, Len Platt
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Note on the text
pp xiv-xiv
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Introduction
pp 1-22
- By Len Platt, Tobias Becker, David Linton
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Part I - The mechanics of transfer and translation
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Chapter 1 - Berlin/London: London/Berlin – an outline of cultural transfer 1890–1914
pp 25-43
- By Len Platt
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Chapter 2 - Local contexts and genre construction in early continental musical theatre
pp 44-61
- By Marion Linhardt
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Chapter 3 - German operetta in the West End and on Broadway
pp 62-80
- By Derek B. Scott
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Chapter 4 - The ArcadiansandFilmzauber– adaptation and the popular musical theatre text
pp 81-101
- By Tobias Becker
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Chapter 5 - How a sweet Viennese girl became a fair international lady: transfer, performance, modernity – acts in the making of a cosmopolitan culture
pp 102-117
- By Stefan Frey
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Chapter 6 - ‘A happy man can live in the past’ – musical theatre transfer in the 1920s and 1930s
pp 118-132
- By Len Platt, Tobias Becker
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Part II - Atlantic traffic
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Chapter 7 - ‘Hullo, Ragtime!’West End revue and the Americanisation of popular culture in pre-1914 London
pp 135-152
- By Peter Bailey
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Chapter 8 - The Argentine tango: a transatlantic dance on the European stage
pp 153-169
- By Kerstin Lange
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Chapter 9 - Dover Street to Dixieand the politics of cultural transfer and exchange
pp 170-186
- By David Linton, Len Platt
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Chapter 10 - The transculturality of stage, song and other media: intermediality in popular musical theatre
pp 187-200
- By Carolin Stahrenberg, Nils Grosch
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Part III - Representation in transition – cultural transfer/stage Others
pp 201-273
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Chapter 11 - The Sandow Girl and her sisters: Edwardian musical comedy, cultural transfer and the staging of the healthy female body
pp 203-223
- By Viv Gardner
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Chapter 12 - West End musical theatre and the representation of Germany
pp 224-241
- By Len Platt
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Chapter 13 - TheTropical Expressin Nazi Germany
pp 242-257
- By Susann Lewerenz
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Chapter 14 - Operetta and propaganda in the Third Reich: cultural politics and the Metropol-Theater
pp 258-273
- By Matthias Kauffmann
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Select bibliography
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Index of names
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Index of plays
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