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Listening and Longing: Music Lovers in the Age of Barnum (Music / Culture)

Daniel Cavicchi

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Description:Winner of the Northeast Popular Culture Association's Peter C. Rollins Book Award (2012)Winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award (2012)Listening and Longing explores the emergence of music listening in the United States, from its early stages in the antebellum era, when entrepreneurs first packaged and sold the experience of hearing musical performance, to the Gilded Age, when genteel critics began to successfully redefine the cultural value of listening to music. In a series of interconnected stories, American studies scholar Daniel Cavicchi focuses on the impact of industrialization, urbanization, and commercialization in shaping practices of music audiences in America. Grounding our contemporary culture of listening in its seminal historical moment--before the iPod, stereo system, or phonograph--Cavicchi offers a fresh understanding of the role of listening in the history of music.Hardcover is un-jacketed.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Listening and Longing: Music Lovers in the Age of Barnum (Music / Culture). To get started finding Listening and Longing: Music Lovers in the Age of Barnum (Music / Culture), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Winner of the Northeast Popular Culture Association's Peter C. Rollins Book Award (2012)Winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award (2012)Listening and Longing explores the emergence of music listening in the United States, from its early stages in the antebellum era, when entrepreneurs first packaged and sold the experience of hearing musical performance, to the Gilded Age, when genteel critics began to successfully redefine the cultural value of listening to music. In a series of interconnected stories, American studies scholar Daniel Cavicchi focuses on the impact of industrialization, urbanization, and commercialization in shaping practices of music audiences in America. Grounding our contemporary culture of listening in its seminal historical moment--before the iPod, stereo system, or phonograph--Cavicchi offers a fresh understanding of the role of listening in the history of music.Hardcover is un-jacketed.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Listening and Longing: Music Lovers in the Age of Barnum (Music / Culture). To get started finding Listening and Longing: Music Lovers in the Age of Barnum (Music / Culture), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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