Series: Studies in Popular Culture

Juke Box Britain presents a highly original and detailed investigation into the nature of American visual, musical, and cultural influences on British youth between 1945 and 1960. It examines the spread of youth culture, including juke boxes, coffee and milk bars, dress styles, and rock 'n' roll, as well as the context of these new cultural influences in design, music,...

From the bawdy audience of a Victorian Penny Gaff to the excitable crowd of an early twentieth-century football match, working-class male leisure proved to be a contentious issue for contemporary observers. For middle-class social reformers from across the political spectrum, the spectacle of popular leisure offered a view of working-class habits and a means by which lifestyles and behaviour could...

This collection brings together studies of popular performance and politics across the nineteenth century, offering a fresh perspective from an archivally grounded research base. It works with the concept that politics is performative and performance is political. The book is organised into three parts in dialogue regarding specific approaches to popular performance and politics. Part I offers a series of...