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1 online resource (237 pages) |
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text file |
| Contents |
Introduction; Elitism; Education and Culture; Don't Educate Us; Entertain Us; Fun; Fads and Trends; The Romantic Art; Orchestra Finances; The New and News; Contemporary Music; Airheads; Marketing and Image; Marketing Idiocy; Marketing and Its Discontents; Seeking Out the Best Things in Life; Multiculturalism; Later: Black Musicians and Marketing; Attracting a Young Crowd; Classical, Rock, and Youth; The Land of the Obvious; On Spiritual Matters; Attentiveness and Judgment; Attentiveness II; Absorption; Feeling; Does Quality Have a Future?; Performance Practice. |
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Aesthetics and CriticismPPP and True Authenticity; PPP II; Cultural Suicide; Cultural Suicide II; The Golden Age; The Nostalgia Trap; Surtitles; The Death of Service; Distribution; Browsing; Is the Internet the End of Records?; Index; About the Author. |
| Summary |
In Classical Music in a Changing Culture, Donald Vroon takes no prisoners in assessing the challenges and failures and possible successes that confront America's future as a nation of music listeners. Vroon delves into a variety of topics: orchestra finances, contemporary music, classical music marketing, attracting young crowds, musical aesthetics, the future of classical music, the sale and distribution of music in the modern era; the decline of American culture and its causes; the role of misguided ideologies that affect Ame. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Musical criticism.
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Musical criticism. |
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Music -- Social aspects.
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Music -- Social aspects. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Vroon, Donald. Classical Music in a Changing Culture : Essays from The American Record Guide. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2014 9781442234543 |
| ISBN |
9781442234550 |
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1442234555 |
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9781442234543 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1442234547 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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