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1 online resource |
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text file |
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PDF |
| Series |
California studies in 20th-century music ; 30.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The art of appreciation -- "Audiences of the future" : the Robert Mayer Concerts for Children (1924-1939) -- Victorians on radio : Music and the Ordinary Listener (1926-1939) -- Music education on film : Instruments of the Orchestra (1946) -- Outside the ivory tower : extra-mural music at the University of Birmingham (1948-1964) -- The Avant-garde goes to school : O Magnum Mysterium (1960) -- Epilogue : the middlebrow in an age of cultural pluralism. |
| Summary |
"From the BBC Proms to Bernstein's Young People's Concerts, initiatives to promote classical music have been a pervasive feature of twentieth-century musical life. The goal of these initiatives was rarely just to reach a larger and more diverse audience but to teach a particular way of listening that would help the public 'appreciate' music. This book examines for the first time how and why music appreciation has had such a defining and long-lasting impact--well beyond its roots in late-Victorian liberalism. It traces the networks of music educators, philanthropists, policy-makers, critics, composers, and musicians who, rather than resisting new mass media, sought to harness their pedagogic potential; and explores how listening became embroiled in a nexus of modern problems around citizenship, leisure, and education. In so doing, it ultimately reveals how a new cultural milieu--the middlebrow--emerged at the heart of Britain's experience of modernity"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Language |
In English. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Music -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Music appreciation -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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MUSIC / History & Criticism |
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Music appreciation |
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Music -- Social aspects |
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Great Britain |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Guthrie, Kate, 1987- The art of appreciation Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021] 9780520351677 (DLC) 2020051224 |
| ISBN |
9780520975897 (pdf) |
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0520975898 |
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9780520351677 (cloth) |
| Standard No. |
10.1525/9780520975897 |
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