Making Music in Los Angeles: Transforming the Popular

Contents

• List of Illustrations
• Preface and
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Music Making as Popular Practice
• PART I . MUSIC FOR THE "PEOPLE"
• 2. "The Largest and Most Enthusiastic Audience That Ever Has Assembled in the City": The National Opera Company of 1887
• 3. "A Precarious Means of Living": Early Working Musicians and Their Jobs
• 4. "Popular Prices Will Prevail": Competing and Cooperating Impresarios
• 5. Amateurs, Professionals, and Symphonies: Harley Hamilton and Edna Foy
• 6. "Our Awe Struck Vision": A Prominent Impresario Reconsidered
• PART II . PROGRESSIVE-ERA MUSICAL IDEALISM
• 7. The "True Temple of Art": Philharmonic Auditorium and Progressive Ideology
• 8. "Something of Good for the Future": The People's Orchestra of 1912--1913
• 9. Producing Fairyland, 1915
• 10. Founding the Hollywood Bowl
• PART III . FROM PROGRESSIVE TO ULTRAMODERN
• 11. Old Competitors, New Opera Companies in 1925
• 12. The New Negro Movement in Los Angeles
• 13. Welcoming the Ultramodern
• 14. Second Thoughts
• 15. Calling the Tune: The Los Angeles Federal Music Project
• Appendix A. Los Angeles Population Growth, with Racial and Ethnic Distribution
• Appendix B. Musicians and Teachers of Music in the United States and Los Angeles
• Appendix C. A Music Chronology for Los Angeles, 1781--1941 Notes
• Bibliography
• Index