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Listening and longing : music lovers in the age of Barnum / Daniel Cavicchi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cavicchi, Daniel.
- Series:
- Music/culture.
- Music/culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.
- Music.
- Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891.
- Barnum, P. T.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (538 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An intriguing look at music listening in nineteenth-century America
- Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. "P. T. Barnum, Introducing Madelle. Jenny Lind to Ossian E. Dodge": Capitalizing on Music in the Antebellum Era; 2. "I Think I Will Do Nothing ... But Listen": Forming a New Urban Ear; 3. "Music Is What Awakens in You When You Are Reminded by the Instruments": Hearing a New Life at Mid-Century; 4. "How I Should Like to Hear It All Over Again & Again": Loving Music, 1850-1885; 5. "Attempering This Whole People to the Sentiment of Art": Institutionalizing Musical Ecstasy; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography
- IndexMusic/Culture; About the Author
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-30936-X
- 9786613309365
- 0-8195-7163-6
- OCLC:
- 759868715
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