Let the People Sing (novel)
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Let the People Sing is a 1939 comedy
novel
by the British writer J.B. Priestly. It examines civic politics and corruption in the small English town of Dunbury, where the music hall
is due to be closed. It was adapted into a 1942 film Let the People Sing
.
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...
novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
by the British writer J.B. Priestly. It examines civic politics and corruption in the small English town of Dunbury, where the music hall
Music hall
Music Hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment which was popular between 1850 and 1960. The term can refer to:# A particular form of variety entertainment involving a mixture of popular song, comedy and speciality acts...
is due to be closed. It was adapted into a 1942 film Let the People Sing
Let the People Sing (film)
Let the People Sing is a 1942 British comedy film directed by John Baxter and starring Alastair Sim, Fred Emney and Edward Rigby. A small town bands together to try to save their music hall from closure. It was based on the novel Let the People Sing by J.B...
.