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Author Scott, Derek B.

Title Sounds of the metropolis : the Nineteenth-century popular music revolution in London, New York, Paris, and Vienna / Derek B. Scott
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 304 pages) : illustrations, music
Series UPSO - Oxford University Press E-Books
Contents The social context of the popular music revolution -- Professionalism and commercialism -- New markets for cultural goods -- Music, morals, and social order -- The rift between art and entertainment -- Studies of revolutionary popular genres -- A revolution on the dance floor, a revolution in musical style: The Viennese waltz -- Blackface minstrels, black minstrels, and their European reception -- The music hall cockney: flesh and blood, or replicant? -- No smoke without water: the incoherent message of Montmartre Cabaret
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-287) and index
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SUBJECT Metropolitan Museum of Art gnd
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Subject Popular music -- Europe -- To 1901 -- History and criticism
Popular music -- New York (State) -- New York -- To 1901 -- History and criticism
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Pop Vocal.
Popular music
Unterhaltungsmusik
Populärmusik -- Europa -- 1800-talet.
Populärmusik -- Förenta staterna -- New York (stat) -- 1800-talet.
Europe
New York (State) -- New York
Europa
New York (N.Y.)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199718832
0199718830
9780199871254
0199871256