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Sounds of the Metropolis - The 19th-Century Popular Music Revolution in London, New York, Paris, and Vienna (Hardcover)
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Sounds of the Metropolis - The 19th-Century Popular Music Revolution in London, New York, Paris, and Vienna (Hardcover)
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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. London, New York,
Paris, and Vienna feature prominently as cities in which the
challenge to the classical tradition was strongest, and in which
original and influential forms of popular music arose, from
Viennese waltz and polka to vaudeville and cabaret.
Scott 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 ofthe Metropolis will appeal to
students of music, cultural sociology, and history.
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