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Live Music in America provides the first dedicated survey of music history in the United States as seen through the lens of live performance, offering readers a wide-ranging social and cultural history of American music that touches on race, class, gender, and debates over cultural value.
Table des matières
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Toward a History of Liveness
- 1. Selling the Nightingale: Jenny Lind, P.T. Barnum, and the Management of the American Crowd
- 2. Staging the Spiritual: The Fisk Jubilee Singers and the Postbellum Public Sphere
- 3. Economies of Performance: Tony Pastor, Ernest Hogan, and the Emergence of Vaudeville
- 4. Remaking Liveness: The Social Geography of Early Jazz
- 5. Culture High and Low: Reinventing Concert Music
- 6. The Perfect Package: Rock 'n' Roll Concerts in the 1950s
- 7. Crowds, Chaos, and Community: Music Festivals from Newport to New Orleans
- 8. The Politics of Scale: Arenas, Stadiums, and the Industrialization of Liveness
- 9. Staging Hip-Hop: Race, Rap, and the Remapping of Musical Performance
- Conclusion: A Homecoming
- Index
A propos de l'auteur
Steve Waksman is Elsie Irwin Sweeney Professor of Music at Smith College, Massachusetts. His publications include the books Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience (1999), and This Ain't the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk (2009), the latter of which was awarded the 2010 Woody Guthrie Award for best scholarly book on popular music by the U.S. chapter of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-US). With Reebee Garofalo, he is the co-author of the sixth edition of the rock history textbook, Rockin' Out: Popular Music in the U.S.A. (2014), and with Andy Bennett, he co-edited the SAGE Handbook of Popular Music (2015). His essays have appeared in such collections as the Cambridge Companion to the Guitar, Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop, Metal Rules the Globe, and The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre and Popular Music. On WRSI radio, The River in Western
Massachusetts, he can be heard as the "Doctor of Rock," offering bits of popular music history in support of Black History Month and Women's History Month.
Résumé
Live Music in America provides the first dedicated survey of music history in the United States as seen through the lens of live performance, offering readers a wide-ranging social and cultural history of American music that touches on race, class, gender, and debates over cultural value.
Texte suppl.
Live Music in America: A History from Jenny Lind to Beyoncé, Waksman clarifies many of the significant developments and acknowledges many well-known and lesser-known individuals who enabled the live-music industry to progress, and like the recording industry, to transform US culture. His compelling history would be an excellent addition to any high school, public, or university library-and will appeal to anyone interested in live music in the US, as well as the history of US music, music technology, and the music industry. Waksman has done an admirable job of taking a complicated topic and making it comprehensible.
