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Waksman, Steve - Live Music in America
Catalogue No: 9780197570531
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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.
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
CONTENTS
Preface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: 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
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