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Benefit Concerts
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Chamber Music Concerts
Choral Concerts
classical
Classical Music Concerts
Classical Music Public
Classical Music Scene
Classical Music World
concert
concert audiences
Concert Life
Concert World
concerts
Concerts Spirituels
conservatory
Conservatory Concerts
cultural stratification
Elite Concerts
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European urban society
franz
Franz Liszt
High Status Public
Individual Occupational Choice
life
liszt
London concert life
Low Status Public
Lower Bracket
Middle Bracket
middle class
music sociology
musical
musical canon
musical canon formation
Musical Life
musicology
nineteenth-century culture
Orchestral Concerts
Parisian Journalist
Popular Music Public
Popular Music Scene
Promenade Concerts
public
social history of concert life
world
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754635635
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Dec 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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First published in 1975, Music and the Middle Class made a trail-blazing contribution to the social history of music, bringing together sociological and historical methods that have subsequently become accepted as central to the discipline of musicology. Moreover, the major themes of the book are ones which scholars today continue to grapple with: the nature of the middle class(es) and their role in cultural definition; the concept of taste publics distinct from social status; and the establishment of the musical canon. This classic text is reissued here in Ashgate's Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain series, though of course the book ranges beyond its study of London to discuss in detail the contrasting concert life of Paris and Vienna. This edition features a substantial new preface which takes into account the significant work that has been done in this field since the book first appeared, and provides a unique opportunity to assess the impact the book has had on our thinking about the European middle class and its role in musical life.
William Weber, California State University, USA
