Music and Culture in America, 1861-1918

by Saffle,Michael; Saffle,Michael

• ISBN13: 9780815321255
• ISBN10: 0815321252
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-06-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This collection of new essays focuses on the crucial period at the end of the 19th and early 20th century when American music developed its own unique social and cultural institutions.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword	vii	(2)
Introduction	ix
William Steinway and Music in New York, 1861-1871	3	(26)
Edwin M. Good
Mrs. Potiphar at the Opera: Satire, Idealism, and Cultural Authority in Post-Civil War New York	29	(24)
Karen Ahlquist
Concert Singers, Prima Donnas, and Entertainers: The Changing Status of Black Women Vocalists in Nineteenth-Century America	53	(26)
Thomas L. Riis
Somewhere Between Beer and Wagner: The Cultural and Musical Impact of German Mannerchore in New York and New Orleans	79	(32)
Mary Sue Morrow
The Indianapolis Mannerchor: Contributions to a New Musicality in Midwestern Life	111	(30)
Suzanne G. Snyder
Why American Art Music First Arrived in New England	141	(26)
Nicholas E. Tawa
Promoting the Local Product: Reflections on the California Musical Press, 1874-1914	167	(30)
Michael Saffle
Music in Lancaster, Kentucky, 1885-1910: Local Talent, Touring Artists, and the Opera House	197	(34)
Ben Arnold
Jacob Guth in Montrose: A Town Band in Central Pennsylvania, 1888-1897	231	(40)
Kenneth Kreitner
When Cairo Met Main Street: Little Egypt, Salome Dancers, and the World's Fairs of 1893 and 1904	271	(28)
Charles A. Kennedy
Inventing Tradition: Symphony and Opera in Progressive-Era Los Angeles	299	(24)
Catherine Parsons Smith
The Operettas of Charles Hutchinson Gabriel	323	(20)
Clyde W. Brockett
The Missing Title Page: Dvorak and the American National Song	343	(24)
John C. Tibbetts
Index	367	(16)
Contributors	383