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Author:   Derek B. Scott (Professor of Critical Musicology, Professor of Critical Musicology, University of Leeds)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 16.30cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780195309461

ISBN 10:   0195309464
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   14 August 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1: The Social Context of the Popular Music Revolution 1: Professionalism and Commercialism Concerts and Music Halls The Sheet Music Trade The Piano Trade Copyright and Performing Right The Star System 2: New Markets for Cultural Goods Entrepreneurship 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 vs. Serious Music Art, Taste, and Status Opera vs. Operetta Folk Music: Edification for the Uncritical Part 2: 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 Pre-eminent 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 Rea 8: No Smoke Without Water: The Incoherent Message of Montmartre Cabaret The Chat Noir and Aristide Bruant Other Cabaret Artists Yvette Guilbert The Proliferation of Artistic Cabarets Cabaret and the Avant-Garde Notes Bibliography/Index

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this is a most informative and stimulating book, which I recommend not only to all lovers of antiquated pop music, but to everyone who has ever wondered how Western music got into its present odd state Music and Letters the book has much to offer... illuminating Rupert Christiansen, Times Literary Supplement

...the book has much to offer...illuminating... Rupert Christiansen, Times Literary Supplement

this is a most informative and stimulating book, which I recommend not only to all lovers of antiquated pop music, but to everyone who has ever wondered how Western music got into its present odd state Music and Letters the book has much to offer... illuminating Rupert Christiansen, Times Literary Supplement

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Derek B. Scott is Professor of Music at the University of Leeds, UK.

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