Listening and longing : music lovers in the age of Barnum /

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Author / Creator: Cavicchi, Daniel.
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2011]
Series:Music/culture.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • "P. T. Barnum Introducing Madelle. Jenny Lind to Ossian E. Dodge": Capitalizing on Music in the Antebellum Era
  • "I think I Will Do Nothing... But Listen": Forming a New Urban Ear
  • "Music Is What Awakens in You When You Are Reminded by the Instruments": Hearing a New Life at Mid-Century
  • "How I Should Like to Hear It All Over Again & Again": Loving Music, 1850-1885
  • "Attempering This Whole People to the Sentiment of Art": Institutionalizing Musical Ecstasy
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index