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