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Preface: The Pierrot fable
Introduction
1 Here we are again!: Current practice
2 Trope to troupe: The origins of Pierrot in Britain
3 Minstrels: White and black
4 The Seaside Minstrels
5 Proliferation
6 Bringing Blighty to the Boys with troupes for the troops: Pierrot troupes and concert parties in the First World War
7 Ambiguities in the evolution of the form and its developments during the inter-war years
8 Khaki-clad pierrot heroes: British concert parties/pierrot troupes in the Second World War
9 It's that troupe again ...: Concert party adaptations for the airwaves and post-war British pop culture
10 Impacts and reverberations: The ways in which the seaside troupe format has directly affected contemporary culture
11 Conclusion: Pierrots and concert parties provide a portal to past, present and future popular culture
Appendices
Appendix 1: Timeline of pierrot/concert-party projects by Tony Lidington
Appendix 2: Programme for Moore & Burgess Minstrels, April 14th 1877
Appendix 3: early members of Clifford Essex's troupe
Appendix 4: Table illustrating the date of the first connections to seaside resorts by steamer and railway
Appendix 5: Spreadsheet of troupes with the words Royal or Imperial in the title
Appendix 6: List of troupes formed prior to the First World War
Appendix 7: Song books & publishers for pierrot troupes and concert parties
Appendix 8: List of troupes operating in the First World War
Appendix 9: Pierrot troupe list for 1918-1939
Appendix 10: Numbers of ENSA performances (from information provided by Basil Dean)
Appendix 11: Annual budgetary expenditures for ENSA
Appendix 12: List of seaside shows opening 1946-1961
Appendix 13: The Roosters
Glossary of terms
References
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