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Author Smith, Catherine Parsons, 1933-2009.

Title Making music in Los Angeles : transforming the popular / Catherine Parsons Smith.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 376 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note "Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint"--Page [i].
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-344) and index.
Contents Music making as popular practice -- Music for the "people". "The largest and most enthusiastic audience that ever has assembled in the city" : the National Opera Company of 1887 ; "A precarious means of living" : early working musicians and some of their jobs ; "Popular prices will prevail" : competing and cooperating impresarios ; Amateurs, professionals, and symphonies : Harley Hamilton and Edna Foy ; "Our awe struck vision" : a prominent impresario reconsidered -- Progressive-era musical idealism. The "true temple of art" : Philharmonic Auditorium and progressive ideology ; "Something of good for the future" : the People's Orchestra of 1912-1913 ; Producing Fairyland, 1915 ; Founding the Hollywood Bowl -- From progressive to ultramodern. Old competitors, new opera companies in 1925 ; The new negro movement in Los Angeles ; Welcoming the ultramodern ; Second thoughts ; Calling the tune : the Los Angeles Federal Music Project.
Summary A social history of music in Los Angeles from the 1880s to 1940, this title ventures into an often neglected period to discover that during America's Progressive Era, LA was a centre for making music long before it became a major metropolis.
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Subject Music -- Social aspects -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.
Music -- Social aspects.
California -- Los Angeles.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Music -- Social aspects -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 19th century
1800-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Smith, Catherine Parsons, 1933- Making music in Los Angeles. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007 9780520251397 0520251393 (DLC) 2006036207 (OCoLC)74987836
ISBN 9780520933835 (electronic book)
0520933834 (electronic book)
9781435611375 (electronic book)
1435611373 (electronic book)
9780520251397 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0520251393 (cloth ; alkaline paper)