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Listening and longing : music lovers in the age of Barnum /
An intriguing look at music listening in nineteenth-century America.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Middletown, Conn. :
Wesleyan University Press,
©2011.
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| Series: | Music/culture.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. "P. T. Barnum, Introducing Madelle. Jenny Lind to Ossian E. Dodge": Capitalizing on Music in the Antebellum Era; 2. "I Think I Will Do Nothing ... But Listen": Forming a New Urban Ear; 3. "Music Is What Awakens in You When You Are Reminded by the Instruments": Hearing a New Life at Mid-Century; 4. "How I Should Like to Hear It All Over Again & Again": Loving Music, 1850-1885; 5. "Attempering This Whole People to the Sentiment of Art": Institutionalizing Musical Ecstasy; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography.