Sounds of the Metropolis: The 19th Century Popular Music Revolution in London, New York, Paris, and Vienna
- Author: Scott, Derek B.
Book
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Contents
- Introduction
- Part 1: The Social Context of the Popular Music Revolution
- Chapter 1 Professionalism and Commercialism
- Concerts and Music Halls / The Sheet Music Trade / The Piano Trade / Copyright and Performing Right / The Star System
- Chapter 2: New Markets for Cultural Goods
- Entrepreneurship / Promenade Concerts / Dance Music / Music Hall and Cafe-Concert / Blackface Minstrelsy, Black Musicals, and Vaudeville / Operetta
- Chapter 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
- Chapter 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
- Chapter 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
- Chapter 6: Blackface Minstrels, Black Minstrels and Their European Reception.
- Reception in Britain / Seeking the Black Beneath the Blackface / England's Pre-eminent Troupes / Black Troupes / Minstrel Contradictions / The Minstrel Legacy
- Chapter 7: The Music Hall Cockney: Flesh and Blood, or Replicant?
- Phase 1: Parody / Phase 2: The Character-Type / Phase 3: The Imagined Real
- Chapter 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