Urban popular culture and entertainment : experiences from Northern, East-central, and Southern Europe, 1870s to 1930s / edited by Antje Dietze and Alexander Vari.

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.

©2023

viii, 326 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

"This book is part of an ongoing transnational turn in cultural history. Studies on the history of urban popular culture and the entertainment industries increasingly engage with the European or global circulation of genres, actors, and shows, especially during the period of massive growth and expansion of the sector from the 1870s to the 1930s. Nevertheless, a large part of this research remains focused on exchanges between Western and Central European, and North American metropolises. To provide a fuller picture of the emergence and cross-border transfer of different genres of popular culture, this volume investigates Northern, East Central, and Southern European cities and their relations with each other and the West. The authors analyze the mediating agents, transnational networks, and local responses to new forms of entertainment from Madrid to Vyborg, and from Istanbul to Reykjavík. These examples re-focus the history of urban popular culture in Europe in view of multidirectional transfers and a wider range of regional experiences. Urban Popular Culture will appeal to researchers and students alike interested in the history of popular culture in modern societies, particularly those studying urban centers in Europe, and their transnational and transregional connections"-- Provided by publisher.

Online version: Urban popular culture New York, NY : Routledge, [2023]

English

April 01, 2023

Includes bibliographical references and index.