Sounds of the Metropolis - The 19th Century Popular Music Revolution in London, New York, Paris

Zusatztext This is the first book to show just when and where the music-making we call 'popular music' first appeared internationally. Professor Scott surveys the music business and moral issues over popular songs with a suave sophistication, and then looks deeper into blackface minstrels, music-hall Cockneys, and Montmartre cabarets. Scholars in many fields will find this history invaluable. Informationen zum Autor Derek B. Scott is Professor of Critical Musicology at the University of Leeds, UK. Klappentext 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 theincorporation 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 uponpopular music in the next century. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part 1: The Social Context of the Popular Music Revolution Chapter 1 Professionalism and Commercialism Concerts and Music Halls / The Sheet Music Trade / The Piano Trade / Copyright and Performing Right / The Star System Chapter 2: New Markets for Cultural Goods Entrepreneurship / Promenade Concerts / Dance Music / Music Hall and Café-Concert / Blackface Minstrelsy, Black Musicals, and Vaudeville / Operetta Chapter 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 Chapter 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 Chapter 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...

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• Authors: Derek B Scott, Derek B. Scott, Derek B. (Professor of Critical Musicology Scott, Professor Derek B. Scott
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2011
• EAN: 9780199891870
• ISBN: 978-0-19-989187-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries