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Live Music in America - A History from Jenny Lind to Beyonce (Paperback)
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Live Music in America - A History from Jenny Lind to Beyonce (Paperback)
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When the Swedish concert singer Jenny Lind toured the U.S. in 1850,
she became the prototype for the modern pop star. Meanwhile, her
manager, P.T. Barnum, became the prototype for another figure of
enduring significance: the pop culture impresario. Starting with
Lind's fabled U.S. tour and winding all the way into the
twenty-first century, Live Music in America surveys the ongoing
impact and changing conditions of live music performance in the
U.S. It covers a range of historic performances, from the Fisk
Jubilee Singers expanding the sphere of African American music in
the 1870s, to Benny Goodman bringing swing to Carnegie Hall in
1938, to 1952's Moondog Coronation Ball in Cleveland - arguably the
first rock and roll concert - to Beyonce's boundary-shattering
performance at the 2018 Coachella festival. More than that, the
book details the roles played by performers, audiences, media
commentators, and a variety of live music producers (promoters,
agents, sound and stage technicians) in shaping what live music
means and how it has evolved. Live Music in America connects what
occurs behind the scenes to what takes place on stage to highlight
the ways in which live music is very deliberately produced and does
not just spontaneously materialize. Along the way, author Steve
Waksman uses previously unstudied archival materials to shed new
light on the origins of jazz, the emergence of rock 'n' roll, and
the rise of the modern music festival.
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