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Music hall
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The Eagle Tavern in 1830.
Stylistic origins Building:
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Cultural origins 18th century, United Kingdom
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Music Hall is a type of British theatre which had its start in the public "song and supper" rooms of the 1850s. It flourished from the 1890s to the Second World War, when other forms of popular music evolved and it began to be replaced by films as the most popular form of entertainment.

British Music Hall was similar to American vaudeville.

The term Music Hall is also used to describe a large musical venue, such as the Paris Olympia and Radio City Music Hall.

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  • 1875 Oxford Music Hall

    The Oxford Music Hall, c. 1875

  • Canterbury Hall circa 1856

    Interior of the Canterbury Hall, opened 1852 in Lambeth

  • Spencer Gore Balcony at the Alhambra 1910-11

    Balcony at the Alhambra by Spencer Gore; 1910–11

  • Vesta Victoria at the Old Bedford MET DP806033

    Vesta Victoria at the Old Bedford (sketch) by Walter Sickert; c. 1890

  • 1907 Music hall strike poster

    1907 poster from the Music Hall War between artists and theatre managers

  • Women of Britain Say - "Go" - World War I British poster by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, art by E J Kealey (Restoration)

    May 1915 poster by E. J. Kealey, from the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee

  • Degas - Café Concert - at Les Ambassadeurs 1876-77

    The Café-Concert by Edgar Degas (1876–77)

  • Baker Charleston

    Josephine Baker dances the Charleston at the Folies Bergère (1926)

  • Olympia facade

    The Olympia Music Hall

  • GeorgeLeybourne2

    George Leybourne as 'Champagne Charlie'. Artwork by Alfred Concanen

  • Gus Elen If It Wasnt for the Ouses In Between

    "If It Wasn't for the 'Ouses in Between", sung by Gus Elen.

  • King, Hetty - 1910 (male impersonator)

    Male impersonator Hetty King

  • Falk, Benjamin J. (1853-1925) - Eugen Sandow (1867-1925)

    Strongman Eugen Sandow

  • 1867 NationalStandardTheatre

    1867 Poster from the National Standard Theatre, Shoreditch (1837–1940). Not strictly a Music Hall, but a theatre where many of these artists performed their Music Hall acts.

  • Hackney Empire, Hackney, E8 (3749526243)

    The Hackney Empire, 2009

  • London-coliseum

    1904 London Coliseum, Matcham theatre with London's widest proscenium arch

See also

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