| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xvii, 264 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-258) and index. |
| Contents |
Fabricating the future citizen : the ballads of a nation -- The child as charmed victim : early vocal instruction and the social distinctions conferred by disease -- Making daily life sublime : verse and rhythm "never to abase or degrade" -- Bacchanalian chaos, degenerate hymns, public music instruction, and the discursive fabrication of whiteness -- Ranking the listener, disciplining the audience -- Goodbye Darwin : music appreciation and musical publics -- Reason, ventriloquism, and national music memory contests -- The listening body and the power of the good ear -- Aural icons and social outcasts : Beethoven, Lincoln, and "his master's voice" -- Rethinking participatory limits : from music standards to hip-hop. |
| Subject |
Music -- Instruction and study -- United States -- History.
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Music -- Instruction and study. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Ethnocentrism -- United States -- History.
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Ethnocentrism. |
| ISBN |
023060840X |
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9780230608405 |
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