Entertaining Children

PART I: TERMS OF ENGAGEMENT Introduction: 'Setting the Scene': An Introduction; Gillian Arrighi and Victor Emeljanow 1. 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 2. An American Antebellum Child-Actor Contract: Alfred Stewart and the Shift from Craft Apprentice to Wage Laborer; Shauna Vey 3. Children and Youth of the Empire: Tales of Transgression and Accommodation; Gillian Arrighi and Victor Emeljanow 4. British Child Performers 1920-1940: New Issues, Old Legacies; Dyan Colclough PART II: BY CHILDREN/FOR CHILDREN 5. 'How Much Do You Love Me'? The Child's Obligations to the Adult in 1930s Hollywood; Noel Brown 6. Shifting Screens: The Child Performer and her Audience Revisited in the Digital Age; Gilli Bush-Bailey 7. The Business of Children in Disney's Theatre; Ken Cerniglia and Lisa Mitchell 8. 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'DonnellPART III: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES 9. The 'Little Legong Dancers' of Bali: Child Stars in Indonesian Dance Theatre; Laura Noszlopy 10. Child Training and Employment in Taiwanese Opera 1940s - 1960s: An Overview; Shih-Ching H. Picucci 11. Higher Wages, Less Pain: The Changing Role of Children in Traditional Chinese Theater; Mark Branner 12. Defying Death: Children in the Indian Circus; Jamie Skidmore