Music hall facts for kids
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The Eagle Tavern in 1830.
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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.
Images for kids
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Interior of the Canterbury Hall, opened 1852 in Lambeth
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Vesta Victoria at the Old Bedford (sketch) by Walter Sickert; c. 1890
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The Café-Concert by Edgar Degas (1876–77)
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Josephine Baker dances the Charleston at the Folies Bergère (1926)
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Strongman Eugen Sandow
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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.
See also
In Spanish: Music hall para niños