Entertaining children
Subtitle: the participation of youth in the entertainment industry
By: Edited by Gillian Arrighi and Victor Emeljanow
Edition: First edition.
Series: Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9781137305459
Subjects: Performing arts and children; History; Entertainers; Child labor
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Terms of engagement. Musical education and the job market: the employment of children and young people in the Neapolitan music industry with particular reference to the period 1650 to 1806 / Rossella Del Prete; title: An American antebellum child-actor contract: Alfred Stewart and the shift from craft apprentice to wage laborer / Shauna Vey; title: Children and youth of the empire: tales of transgression and accommodation / Gillian Arrighi and Victor Emeljanow; title: British child performers 1920-1940: new issues, old legacies / Dyan Colclough; title: By children/for children; title: "How much do you love me"? the child's obligations to the adult in 1930s Hollywood / Noel Brown; title: Shifting screens: the child performer and her audience revisited in the digital age / Gilli Bush-Bailey; title: The business of children in Disney's theatre / Ken Cerniglia and Lisa Mitchell; title: Young mammals: the politics and aesthetics of long-term collaboration with children in mammalian diving reflex's the Torontonians / Broderick D.V. Chow and Darren O'Donnell; title: Global perspectives.- The "little Legong dancers" of Bali: the rise of a child star in Indonesian dance theatre  /  Laura Noszlopy; title: Child training and employment in Taiwanese opera 1940s-1960s: an overview / Shih-Ching H. Picucci; title: Higher wages, less pain: the changing role of children in traditional Chinese theater / Mark Branner; title: Defying death: children in the Indian circus / Jamie skidmore.