HIST 1095 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Music Hall, Haussmann'S Renovation Of Paris, Making Money
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History 1095: Lecture 9
Popular Culture Tuesday, November 8, 2016
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- Emphasize on interpretation
- 1st tip: question about interpretation (not about the story of the ripper)
- intro: very briefly recount what ripper murders were.
- Body: how does Walkowitz talks about it? /clear structure throughout.
- Conclusion: restate your points.
Structure of Lecture:
o The working classes in the late 19th century.
o Popular Culture: What so we mean by popular culture? How has culture changed?
o The City and New Spaces of Popular Culture: Theatres/Music Halls/Cinemas/Sports: the
rise of Association Football/The Literature of Popular Culture: Popular Magazines and
Novels.
Class society in London and Pairs, 1870s-1914
o The establishment of the Third Republic in France. That republic is dominated by
ourgeoisies part iddle-class power). However, working-class men mostly have the
vote. Governed by middle-class population.
o No return to monarchy or empire.
o Dominance of a centrist, bourgeois party.
o A democracy.
o In Britain over same period, vote extended to working-class men in 1867 to 1884. The
vote is given to working-class men. These are liberal capitalist democracies
(democracies that are run towards capitalism). This entire system is unequal. Political
system despite huge political inequality works.
o Both countries are capitalist democracies but with large working-class populations.
o Popular culture is designed to make money. Designed to be sold to commercial
audience.
Themes:
o After the commune, class politics continues. There is still class tension, division and
great deal of inequality. Class politics finds its way in no revolutionary forms. Example,
trade unions.
o Deep class division and segregation; economic inequality.
o Finds new manifestations: socialist parties and trade unions.
o The city continues to be the focus of class politics.
o In London, the state involved itself in improving the conditions of working-class life. The
city is absolutely the focus of class politics.
o The beginning of welfare. State begins to intervene in working-class people. The reason
for it is because they are afraid of the working-class. They want to prevent potential
revolution.
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History 1095: Lecture 9
Popular Culture Tuesday, November 8, 2016
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Class Segregation: Paris
o The suurs alieues gro rapidl i this period. Haussmannization pushes out
industries. They move to suburbs from the city. The outer-city is working class.
o The suburbs become the main residential area for working-class people and the site of
industry.
o Large, mechanized factories and plants (car production).
o The decline of the small workshops in Paris.
o The ‘ed Belt of Paris.
o Poor living conditions – ilot isalure – approximately 60% of houses in three areas are
isaitar. Conditions of working class people is very poor.
Who are the urban working classes?
o The variety of the working-classes. In France and Britain, working-class is a majority.
They lived in a society that was deeply unequal.
o The skilled artisa or raftsa the respetale orkig-class.
o Uskilled or asual orkers.
o Divisions between men and women.
o The poor.
o There is no one working class.
o Between 1810 and 1910, 10% of the European population controls 80 to 90% of all
wealth.
o Between 1810 and 1910, 1% of the European population controls 50-60% of all wealth
o That means, only 10 to 20% of all wealth has to be shared by 90% of the population.
How working class people experience inequality
Hosa, p. 29: It is a piture f self-respecting and self-reliant people, whose expectation were
pitifully modest, who knew they could be worse off, who perhaps remembered times when they
had been even poorer, but who were always haunted by the spectre of poverty (as they
understood the term)., The standards of the middle-class life would never be for such as these,
ut pauperis as alas ear… the gap hih separated the fro the ourgeoisies orlds
was wise- ad uridgeale.
- They accepted it. They were not revolutionary.
How do the working-classes react to economic inequality?
o Are they revolutionary?
o Hosa, p. 2: Ol here reolutio still seeed the ol plausile solutio for
conditions of the laorig poor… or here… the traditio of isurretio ad the
revolutionary social republic was the dominant political tradition of the working people,
as respetailit a relatiel isigifiat fator.
o More usually, they form their own association and parties, largely, as a way of defending
theseles; eaple of trade uio…
o They responded to inequality by defending themselves. Revolution suggest confidence
that you can remake the world in your image. Working-class people defended
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Document Summary
1st tip: question about interpretation (not about the story of the ripper) Conclusion: restate your points. intro: very briefly recount what ripper murders were. How has culture changed: the city and new spaces of popular culture: theatres/music halls/cinemas/sports: the rise of association football/the literature of popular culture: popular magazines and. Class society in london and pairs, 1870s-1914: the establishment of the third republic in france. That republic is dominated by (cid:271)ourgeoisies(cid:859) part(cid:455) (cid:894)(cid:373)iddle-class power). Governed by middle-class population: no return to monarchy or empire, dominance of a centrist, bourgeois party, a democracy. In britain over same period, vote extended to working-class men in 1867 to 1884. These are liberal capitalist democracies (democracies that are run towards capitalism). Political system despite huge political inequality works: both countries are capitalist democracies but with large working-class populations, popular culture is designed to make money. Themes: after the commune, class politics continues. There is still class tension, division and great deal of inequality.
