Sounds of the Metropolis: The 19th-Century Popular Music Revolution in London, New York, Paris, and Vienna
- Author: Scott, Derek B.
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Contents
- Introduction
- Part 1: The Social Context of the Popular Music Revolution
- 1 Professionalism and Commercialism
- Concerts and Music Halls
- The Sheet Music Trade
- The Piano Trade
- Copyright and Performing Right
- The Star System
- 2 New Markets for Cultural Goods
- Entrepreneurship
- Promenade Concerts
- Dance Music
- Music Hall and Cafe-Concert
- Blackface Minstrelsy, Black Musicals, and Vaudeville
- Operetta
- 3 Music, Morals, and Social Order
- Respectability and Improvement
- Physical Threats to Morality
- Public and Private Morality
- Threats to Social Order
- Threats to Public Morality
- 4 The Rift Between Art and Entertainment
- Light Music vs. Serious Music
- Art, Taste, and Status
- Opera vs. Operetta
- Folk Music: Edification for the Uncritical
- Part 2: Studies of Revolutionary Popular Genres
- 5 A Revolution on the Dance Floor, a Revolution in Musical Style
- The Viennese Waltz, Unterhaltungsmusik and Popular Style
- Stylistic Features
- Music and Business
- Class and the Metropolis
- Artiness and Seriousness
- 6 Blackface Minstrels, Black Minstrels and Their European Reception
- Seeking the Black Beneath the Blackface
- England's Pre-eminent Troupes
- Black Troupes
- Minstrel Contradictions
- The Minstrel Legacy
- 7 The Music Hall Cockney: Flesh and Blood, or Replicant?
- Phase 1: Parody
- Phase 2: The Character-Type
- Phase 3: The Imagined Rea
- 8 No Smoke Without Water: The Incoherent Message of Montmartre Cabaret
- The Chat Noir and Aristide Bruant
- Other Cabaret Artists
- Yvette Guilbert
- The Proliferation of Artistic Cabarets
- Cabaret and the Avant-Garde
- Notes
- Bibliography/Index