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In the decades before the Second World War, popular musical theatre was one of the most influential forms of entertainment. This is the first book to reconstruct early popular musical theatre as a transnational and highly cosmopolitan industry that included everything from revues and operettas to dance halls and cabaret. Bringing together contributors from Britain and Germany, this collection moves beyond national theatre histories to study Anglo-German relations at a period of intense hostility and rivalry. Chapters frame the entertainment zones of London and Berlin against the wider trading routes of cultural transfer, where empire and transatlantic song and dance produced, perhaps for the first time, a genuinely international culture. Exploring adaptations and translations of works under the influence of political propaganda, this collection will be of interest both to musical theatre enthusiasts and to those interested in the wider history of modernism.

Musical theater --- Lyric theater --- Theater --- History --- London (England) --- Berlin (Germany) --- Stadt Berlin (Germany) --- Berlin (Germany : State) --- Berlim (Germany) --- Baralīna (Germany) --- Berolinum (Germany) --- Berlinum (Germany) --- Verolino (Germany) --- Land Berlin (Germany) --- Berlin State (Germany) --- Berlino (Germany) --- Berlijn (Germany) --- Berlin (Germany : West) --- Berlin (Germany : East) --- Social life and customs --- Théâtre musical --- Histoire --- Londres (GB) --- Berlin (Allemagne) --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Musical theater - England - London - History - 20th century --- Musical theater - England - London - History - 19th century --- Musical theater - Germany - Berlin - History - 20th century --- Musical theater - Germany - Berlin - History - 19th century --- London (England) - Social life and customs - 20th century --- London (England) - Social life and customs - 19th century --- Berlin (Germany) - Social life and customs - 20th century --- Berlin (Germany) - Social life and customs - 19th century

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"On August 13, 1961, under the cover of darkness, East German authorities sealed the border between East and West Berlin using a hastily constructed barbed wire fence. Over the next twenty-eight years, the Berlin Wall served as an ever-present and seemingly permanent physical and psychological divider in this capital city, and between East and West during the Cold War. Similarly, stark polarities arose in nearly every aspect of public and private life, perhaps nowhere more apparent than in the built environment. In Architecture, Politics, and Identity in Divided Berlin, Emily Pugh provides an original comparative analysis of selected works of architecture and urban planning in East and West Berlin during the 'Wall era,' to reveal the importance of these structures to the formation of political, cultural, and social identities. Pugh uncovers the roles played by organizations such as the Foundation for Prussian Cultural Heritage in West Germany and the East German Building Academy in conveying the preferred political narrative of their respective states through constructed spaces. She also provides an overview of architectural works prior to the Wall era, to show the precursors for design aesthetics in Berlin at large, and also considers projects in the post-Wall period, to demonstrate the ongoing effects of the Cold War. Pugh examines representations of architectural works in exhibits, film, journals, magazines, newspapers, and other media, and discusses the effectiveness of planners' attempts to 'win the hearts and minds' of the public. Ideas of home, belonging, community, and nationalism were common underlying themes on both sides of the wall, and instrumental to the construction of cultural and physical landscapes. Overall, Architecture, Politics, and Identity in Divided Berlin offers a compelling case study of a divided city poised at the precipice between the world's most dominant political and ideological forces, and the effort expended by each side to sway the tide of public opinion through the built environment"-- "Emily Pugh provides an original comparative analysis of selected works of architecture and urban planning in East and West Berlin during the 'Wall era,' to reveal the importance of these structures to the formation of political, cultural, and social identities"--

ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning. --- HISTORY / Europe / Germany. --- ARCHITECTURE / Criticism. --- Group identity --- City planning --- Architecture --- Architecture and society --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- History --- Political aspects --- Government policy --- Management --- Social aspects --- Human factors --- Design and construction --- Berlin (Germany) --- Germany (East) --- Germany (West) --- Stadt Berlin (Germany) --- Berlin (Germany : State) --- Berlim (Germany) --- Baralīna (Germany) --- Berolinum (Germany) --- Berlinum (Germany) --- Verolino (Germany) --- Land Berlin (Germany) --- Berlin State (Germany) --- Berlino (Germany) --- Berlijn (Germany) --- Berlin (Germany : West) --- Berlin (Germany : East) --- Politics and government --- Social conditions --- Relations --- Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989 --- Berlin wall (1961- ) --- Berliner Mauer, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989 --- Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989. --- Architecture, Primitive