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Sounds of the metropolis : the nineteenth-century popular music revolution in London, New York, Paris, and Vienna / Derek B. Scott.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scott, Derek B.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular music--Europe--To 1901--History and criticism.
- Popular music.
- Popular music--New York (State)--New York--To 1901--History and criticism.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 304 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- Part I The Social Context of the Popular Music Revolution
- 1 Professionalism and Commercialism 15
- The Sheet Music Trade
- The Piano Trade
- Copyright and Performing Rights
- The Star System
- 2 New Markets for Cultural Goods 38
- Promenade Concerts
- Dance Music
- Music Hall and Cafe-Concert
- Blackface Ministrelsy, Black Musicals, and Vaudeville
- Operetta
- 3 Music, Morals, and Social Order 58
- Respectability and Improvement
- Physical Threats to Morality
- Public and Private Morality
- Threats to Social Order
- Threats to Public Morality
- 4 The Rift between Art and Entertainment 85
- Light Music versus Serious Music
- Art, Taste, and Status
- Opera versus Operetta
- Folk Music: Edification for the Uncritical
- Part II Studies of Revolutionary Popular Genres
- 5 A Revolution on the Dance Floor, a Revolution in Musical Style: The Viennese Waltz 117
- Unterhaltungsmusik and Popular Style
- Stylistic Features
- Music and Business
- Class and the Metropolis
- Artiness and Seriousness
- 6 Blackface Minstrels, Black Minstrels, and Their European Reception 144
- Seeking the Black beneath the Blackface
- England's Preeminent Minstrel Troupes
- Black Troupes
- Minstrel Contradictions
- The Minstrel Legacy
- 7 The Music Hall Cockney: Flesh and Blood, or Replicant? 171
- Phase 1 Parody
- Phase 2 The Character-Type
- Phase 3 The Imagined Real
- 8 No Smoke without Water: The Incoherent Message of Montmartre Cabaret 196
- The Chat Noir and Aristide Bruant
- Other Cabaret Artists
- The Proliferation of Artistic Cabarets
- Cabaret and the Avant-Garde.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-287) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780195309461
- 0195309464
- OCLC:
- 145379821
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