Entertaining Children [electronic resource] : The Participation of Youth in the Entertainment Industry /
Arrighi, G.editor.
Emeljanow, V.editor.
Children have been exploited as performers and wooed energetically as consumers throughout history. These essays offer scholarly investigations into the employment and participation of children in the entertainment industry with examples drawn from historical and contemporary contexts.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Setting the Scene: An Introduction; Part I  Terms of Engagement; 1.  Musical Education and the Job Market: The Employment of Children and Young People in the Neapolitan Music Industry with P; 2.  An American Antebellum Child-Actor Contract: Alfred Stewart and the Shift from Craft Apprentice to Wage Laborer .; 3.  Children and Youth of the Empire: Tales of Transgression and Accommodation .; 4.  British Child Performers 1920-40: New Issues, Old Legacies .; Part II  By Children/for Children .
5.  "How much do you love me?" The Child's Obligations to the Adult in 1930s Hollywood .6.  Shifting Screens: The Child Performer and Her Audience Revisited in the Digital Age .; 7.  The Business of Children in Disney's Theater .; 8.  Young Mammals: The Politics and Aesthetics of Long-Term Collaboration with Children in Mammalian Diving Reflex's The Toron; Part III  Global Perspectives .; 9.  The "little legong dancers" of Bali: The Rise of a Child Star in Indonesian Dance Theater .; 10.  Child Training and Employment in Taiwanese Opera 1940s-1960s: An Overview .
11.  Higher Wages, Less Pain: The Changing Role of Children in Traditional Chinese Theater .12.  Defying Death: Children in the Indian Circus .; Notes on Contributors; Index
Includes index.
Children have been exploited as performers and wooed energetically as consumers throughout history. These essays offer scholarly investigations into the employment and participation of children in the entertainment industry with examples drawn from historical and contemporary contexts.
Performing arts.
Theater-History.
Youth-Social life and customs.
Arts.
Theater.
Childhood.
Adolescence.
Performing Arts.
Theatre History.
Youth Culture.
Arts.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
Childhood, Adolescence and Society.