Sounds of the metropolis : the Nineteenth-century popular music revolution in London, New York, Paris, and Vienna / Derek B. Scott.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 'Sounds of the Metropolis', Derek Scott argues that it was in the 19th century that the first popular music revolution occurred. He illustrates how a distinct group of popular styles first began to challenge the classical tradition and assert their own values and independence.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; Part I: The Social Context of the Popular Music Revolution; 1 Professionalism and Commercialism; The Sheet Music Trade; The Piano Trade; Copyright and Performing Rights; The Star System; 2 New Markets for Cultural Goods; Promenade Concerts; Dance Music; Music Hall and Café-Concert; Blackface Minstrelsy, Black Musicals, and Vaudeville; Operetta; 3 Music, Morals, and Social Order; 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

Light Music versus Serious MusicArt, 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; 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; 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?Phase 1: Parody; Phase 2: The Character-Type; Phase 3: The Imagined Real; 8 No Smoke without Water: The Incoherent Message of Montmartre Cabaret; The Chat Noir and Aristide Bruant; Other Cabaret Artists; The Proliferation of Artistic Cabarets; Cabaret and the Avant-Garde; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-287) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-989187-7

0-19-029489-2

0-19-971883-0

1-281-85167-1

9786611851675

OCLC:

608571537