Entertaining Children: The Participation of Youth in the Entertainment Industry

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Setting the Scene: An Introduction....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Musical Education and the Job Market: The Employment of Children and Young People in the Neapolitan Music Industry with Particular Reference to the Period 1650–1806....Pages 15-32
An American Antebellum Child-Actor Contract: Alfred Stewart and the Shift from Craft Apprentice to Wage Laborer....Pages 33-50
Children and Youth of the Empire: Tales of Transgression and Accommodation....Pages 51-71
British Child Performers 1920–40: New Issues, Old Legacies....Pages 73-90
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
“How much do you love me?” The Child’s Obligations to the Adult in 1930s Hollywood....Pages 93-110
Shifting Screens: The Child Performer and Her Audience Revisited in the Digital Age....Pages 111-127
The Business of Children in Disney’s Theater....Pages 129-145
Young Mammals: The Politics and Aesthetics of Long-Term Collaboration with Children in Mammalian Diving Reflex’s The Torontonians....Pages 147-164
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
The “little legong dancers” of Bali: The Rise of a Child Star in Indonesian Dance Theater....Pages 167-184
Child Training and Employment in Taiwanese Opera 1940s–1960s: An Overview....Pages 185-200
Higher Wages, Less Pain: The Changing Role of Children in Traditional Chinese Theater....Pages 201-218
Defying Death: Children in the Indian Circus....Pages 219-233
Back Matter....Pages 235-251