Entertaining Children

1. Setting the Scene: An Introduction
Gillian Arrighi, Victor Emeljanow

Part I. Terms of Engagement

2. 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
Rossella Prete

3. An American Antebellum Child-Actor Contract: Alfred Stewart and the Shift from Craft Apprentice to Wage Laborer
Shauna Vey

4. Children and Youth of the Empire: Tales of Transgression and Accommodation
Gillian Arrighi, Victor Emeljanow

5. British Child Performers 1920–40: New Issues, Old Legacies
Dyan Colclough

Part II. By Children/for Children

6. “How much do you love me?” The Child’s Obligations to the Adult in 1930s Hollywood
Noel Brown

7. Shifting Screens: The Child Performer and Her Audience Revisited in the Digital Age
Gilli Bush-Bailey

8. The Business of Children in Disney’s Theater
Ken Cerniglia, Lisa Mitchell

9. Young Mammals: The Politics and Aesthetics of Long-Term Collaboration with Children in Mammalian Diving Reflex’s The Torontonians
Broderick D. V. Chow, Darren O’Donnell

Part III. Global Perspectives

10. The “little legong dancers” of Bali: The Rise of a Child Star in Indonesian Dance Theater
Laura Noszlopy

11. Child Training and Employment in Taiwanese Opera 1940s–1960s: An Overview
Shih-Ching H. Picucci

12. Higher Wages, Less Pain: The Changing Role of Children in Traditional Chinese Theater
Mark Branner

13. Defying Death: Children in the Indian Circus
Jamie Skidmore

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Performing Arts, Theatre History, Youth Culture, Arts, Theatre and Performance Studies, Childhood, Adolescence and Society