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Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Toward a History of Liveness
- 1. Selling the Nightingale: Jenny Lind, P.T. Barnum, and the Management of the American Crowd
- 2. Staging the Spiritual: The Fisk Jubilee Singers and the Postbellum Public Sphere
- 3. Economies of Performance: Tony Pastor, Ernest Hogan, and the Emergence of Vaudeville
- 4. Remaking Liveness: The Social Geography of Early Jazz
- 5. Culture High and Low: Reinventing Concert Music
- 6. The Perfect Package: Rock 'n' Roll Concerts in the 1950s
- 7. Crowds, Chaos, and Community: Music Festivals from Newport to New Orleans
- 8. The Politics of Scale: Arenas, Stadiums, and the Industrialization of Liveness
- 9. Staging Hip-Hop: Race, Rap, and the Remapping of Musical Performance
- Conclusion: A Homecoming
- Index