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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457534203321

Autore

Cavicchi Daniel

Titolo

Listening and longing [[electronic resource] ] : music lovers in the age of Barnum / / Daniel Cavicchi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Middletown, Conn., : Wesleyan University Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-30936-X

9786613309365

0-8195-7163-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (538 p.)

Collana

Music/culture

Disciplina

780.973/09034

Soggetti

Music - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. "P. T. Barnum, Introducing Madelle. Jenny Lind to Ossian E. Dodge": Capitalizing on Music in the Antebellum Era; 2. "I Think I Will Do Nothing ... But Listen": Forming a New Urban Ear; 3. "Music Is What Awakens in You When You Are Reminded by the Instruments": Hearing a New Life at Mid-Century; 4. "How I Should Like to Hear It All Over Again & Again": Loving Music, 1850-1885; 5. "Attempering This Whole People to the Sentiment of Art": Institutionalizing Musical Ecstasy; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography

IndexMusic/Culture; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

An intriguing look at music listening in nineteenth-century America