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Download or read book Musical Metropolis written by K. Marcus and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-12-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decentralization and diversity characterized much of the performance of art music in Los Angeles. Decentralization defined the city's growth since the late-nineteenth century, and because the central city did not dominate music culture, as in the East and Midwest, a greater diversification of music emerged in the communities of Greater Los Angeles. Performers and audiencesincluded Latinos, Euro-Americans, Asian Americans, and African Americans, but the notion of diversity goes beyond ethnicity; it also includes 'media diversity', the presentation of music through a variety of media. recording, radio, film media strongly influenced music performance in the city as it grew into the epicenter of entertainment in America.
Book Synopsis Sounds of the Metropolis by : Derek B. Scott
Download or read book Sounds of the Metropolis written by Derek B. Scott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-31 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phrase "popular music revolution" may instantly bring to mind such twentieth-century musical movements as jazz and rock 'n' roll. In Sounds of the Metropolis, however, Derek Scott argues that the first popular music revolution actually occurred in the nineteenth century, illustrating how a distinct group of popular styles first began to assert their independence and values. He explains the popular music revolution as driven by social changes and the incorporation of music into a system of capitalist enterprise, which ultimately resulted in a polarization between musical entertainment (or "commercial" music) and "serious" art. He focuses on the key genres and styles that precipitated musical change at that time, and that continued to have an impact upon popular music in the next century. By the end of the nineteenth century, popular music could no longer be viewed as watered down or more easily assimilated art music; it had its own characteristic techniques, forms, and devices. As Scott shows, "popular" refers here, for the first time, not only to the music's reception, but also to the presence of these specific features of style. The shift in meaning of "popular" provided critics with tools to condemn music that bore the signs of the popular-which they regarded as fashionable and facile, rather than progressive and serious. A fresh and persuasive consideration of the genesis of popular music on its own terms, Sounds of the Metropolis breaks new ground in the study of music, cultural sociology, and history.
Book Synopsis Music Commodities, Markets, and Values by : Jayson Beaster-Jones
Download or read book Music Commodities, Markets, and Values written by Jayson Beaster-Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines music stores as sites of cultural production in contemporary India. Analyzing social practices of selling music in a variety of retail contexts, it focuses upon the economic and social values that are produced and circulated by music retailers in the marketplace. Based upon research conducted over a volatile ten-year period of the Indian music industry, Beaster-Jones discusses the cultural histories of the recording industry, the social changes that have accompanied India’s economic liberalization reforms, and the economic realities of selling music in India as digital circulation of music recordings gradually displaced physical distribution. The volume considers the mobilization of musical, economic, and social values as a component of branding discourses in neoliberal India, as a justification for new regimes of legitimate use and intellectual property, as a scene for the performance of cosmopolitanism by shopping, and as a site of anxiety about transformations in the marketplace. It relies upon ethnographic observation and interviews from a variety of sources within the Indian music industry, including perspectives of executives at music labels, family-run and corporate music stores, and hawkers in street markets selling counterfeit recordings. This ethnography of the practices, spaces, and anxieties of selling music in urban India will be an important resource for scholars in a wide range of fields, including ethnomusicology, anthropology, popular music studies, and South Asian studies.
Book Synopsis The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical by : Jessica Sternfeld
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical written by Jessica Sternfeld and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-16 with total page 715 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical is dedicated to the musical’s evolving relationship to American culture in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In the past decade-and-a-half, international scholars from an ever-widening number of disciplines and specializations have been actively contributing to the interdisciplinary field of musical theater studies. Musicals have served not only to mirror the sociopolitical, economic, and cultural tenor of the times, but have helped shape and influence it, in America and across the globe: a genre that may seem, at first glance, light-hearted and escapist serves also as a bold commentary on society. Forty-four essays examine the contemporary musical as an ever-shifting product of an ever-changing culture. This volume sheds new light on the American musical as a thriving, contemporary performing arts genre, one that could have died out in the post-Tin Pan Alley era but instead has managed to remain culturally viable and influential, in part by newly embracing a series of complex contradictions. At present, the American musical is a live, localized, old-fashioned genre that has simultaneously developed into an increasingly globalized, tech-savvy, intensely mediated mass entertainment form. Similarly, as it has become increasingly international in its scope and appeal, the stage musical has also become more firmly rooted to Broadway—the idea, if not the place—and thus branded as a quintessentially American entertainment.
Download or read book Musical America written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Musical Courier and Review of Recorded Music by :
Download or read book Musical Courier and Review of Recorded Music written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Player Piano and Musical Labor by : Allison Rebecca Wente
Download or read book The Player Piano and Musical Labor written by Allison Rebecca Wente and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the early 20th century the machine aesthetic was a well-established and dominant interest that fundamentally transformed musical performance and listening practices. While numerous scholars have examined this aesthetic in art and literature, musical compositions representing industrialized labor practices and the role of the machine in music remain largely unexplored. Moreover, in recounting the history of machines in musical recording and reproduction, scholars often tend to emphasize the phonograph, rather than player piano, despite the latter’s prominence within the newly established musical marketplace. Machines and their music influenced multiple areas of early 20th-century musical culture, from film scores to popular music and even the concert hall. But the opposite was also true: industrialized labor practices changed the musical marketplace and musical culture as a whole. As consumers accepted mechanical replacements for what previously required an active human laborer, ghostly, mechanical performers labored tirelessly in parlors, businesses, and even concert halls. Although the player piano failed to maintain a stronghold in the recorded music marketplace after 1930, the widespread acceptance of recording technologies as media for storing and enjoying music indicates a much more fundamental societal shift. This book explores that shift, examining the rise and fall of the player piano in early 20th-century society and connecting it to the digital technologies of today.
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Download or read book Musical West, Music and the Dance written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Music News written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Music in North-east England, 1500-1800 by : Stephanie Carter
Download or read book Music in North-east England, 1500-1800 written by Stephanie Carter and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2020 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection situates the North-East within a developing nationwide account of British musical culture.
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Download or read book Musical Magazine and Musical Courier written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Musical Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Schoenberg and Hollywood Modernism by : Kenneth H. Marcus
Download or read book Schoenberg and Hollywood Modernism written by Kenneth H. Marcus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenneth H. Marcus shows how Schoenberg played a vital role in Southern California Modernism through his pedagogy, compositions, and texts.
Book Synopsis The Musical Times and Singing-class Circular by :
Download or read book The Musical Times and Singing-class Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Musical Times & Singing-class Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pacific Coast Musical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Concert Life in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans by : John H. Baron
Download or read book Concert Life in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans written by John H. Baron and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2013-12-09 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the nineteenth century, New Orleans thrived as the epicenter of classical music in America, outshining New York, Boston, and San Francisco before the Civil War and rivaling them thereafter. While other cities offered few if any operatic productions, New Orleans gained renown for its glorious opera seasons. Resident composers, performers, publishers, teachers, instrument makers, and dealers fed the public's voracious cultural appetite. Tourists came from across the United States to experience the city's thriving musical scene. Until now, no study has offered a thorough history of this exciting and momentous era in American musical performance history. John H. Baron's Concert Life in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans impressively fills that gap. Baron's exhaustively researched work details all aspects of New Orleans's nineteenth-century musical renditions, including the development of orchestras; the surrounding social, political, and economic conditions; and the individuals who collectively made the city a premier destination for world-class musicians. Baron includes a wide-ranging chronological discussion of nearly every documented concert that took place in the Crescent City in the 1800s, establishing Concert Life in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans as an indispensable reference volume.
