The art of appreciation : music and middlebrow culture in modern Britain /

"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 o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Guthrie, Kate, 1987- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
Colección:California studies in 20th-century music ; 30.
Temas:
1900-1999
Music > Social aspects > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Music appreciation > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Musique > Aspect social > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Musique > Appréciation > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
MUSIC / History & Criticism
Music appreciation
Music > Social aspects
Great Britain
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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