Making Music in Los Angeles: Transforming the Popular

In this fascinating social history of music in Los Angeles from the 1880s to 1940, Catherine Parsons Smith ventures into an often neglected period to discover that during America's Progressive Era, Los Angeles was a center for making music long before it became a major metropolis. She describes the thriving music scene over some sixty years, including opera, concert giving and promotion, and the struggles of individuals who pursued music as an ideal, a career, a trade, a business--or all those things at once. Smith demonstrates that music making was closely tied to broader Progressive Era issues, including political and economic developments, the new roles played by women, and issues of race, ethnicity, and class.

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Title of ebook: Making Music in Los Angeles: Transforming the Popular
ISBN: 9780520933835
parent-ISBN: 9780520251397
Publisher: University of California Press
Internet download file size: 1574 kb
Published: 10-2007
Released online for download: 10-16-2007
Author of eBook: Smith, Catherine Parsons

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Transforming the Popular

List of Illustrations.......................................................................................................................ix Preface and Acknowledgments.................................................................................................................xi 1. Music Making as Popular Practice.........................................................................................................1 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.....................15 3. "A Precarious Means of Living": Early Working Musicians and Their Jobs...................................................................26 4. "Popular Prices Will Prevail": Competing and Cooperating Impresarios.....................................................................43 5. Amateurs, Professionals, and Symphonies: Harley Hamilton and Edna Foy....................................................................56 6. ... read full excerpt from Making Music in Los Angeles: Transforming the Popular ebook

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