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Sounds of the Metropolis - The 19th Century Popular Music Revolution in London, New York, Paris, and Vienna (Paperback)
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Sounds of the Metropolis - The 19th Century Popular Music Revolution in London, New York, Paris, and Vienna (Paperback)
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The phrase "popular music revolution" may instantly bring to mind
such twentieth-century musical movements as jazz and rock 'n' roll.
In Sounds of the Metropolis, however, Derek Scott argues that the
first popular music revolution actually occurred in the nineteenth
century, illustrating how a distinct group of popular styles first
began to assert their independence and values. He explains the
popular music revolution as driven by social changes and the
incorporation of music into a system of capitalist enterprise,
which ultimately resulted in a polarization between musical
entertainment (or "commercial" music) and "serious" art. He focuses
on the key genres and styles that precipitated musical change at
that time, and that continued to have an impact upon popular music
in the next century. By the end of the nineteenth century, popular
music could no longer be viewed as watered down or more easily
assimilated art music; it had its own characteristic techniques,
forms, and devices. As Scott shows, "popular" refers here, for the
first time, not only to the music's reception, but also to the
presence of these specific features of style. The shift in meaning
of "popular" provided critics with tools to condemn music that bore
the signs of the popular-which they regarded as fashionable and
facile, rather than progressive and serious. A fresh and persuasive
consideration of the genesis of popular music on its own terms,
Sounds of the Metropolis breaks new ground in the study of music,
cultural sociology, and history.
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