Music and the Middle Class: The Social Structure of Concert Life in London, Paris and Vienna between 1830 and 1848

by Weber,William

• ISBN13: 9780754635635
• ISBN10: 0754635635
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781351557559
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-28
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

First published in 1975, Music and the Middle Class made a trail-blazing contribution to the social history of music, bringing together sociological and historical methods that have subsequently become accepted as central to the discipline of musicology. This classic text is reissued here in Ashgate's Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain series, and features a substantial new preface which takes into account the significant work that has been done in this field since the book first appeared.

Author Biography

William Weber is Professor of History, California State University, Long Beach, USA.

Table of Contents

General Editor's Series Preface	vii
General Editor's Foreword: Second Edition	ix
Preface: Second Edition	xi
Preface	xxxv
Abbreviations of Periodical Titles	xxxvii
1 Introduction	1	(18)
2 The Cultural Explosion: An Overview	19	(16)
3 The High-Status Popular-Music Public	35	(26)
4 The High-Status Classical-Music Public	61	(38)
5 The Low-Status Concert Public	99	(34)
6 Conclusion	133	(14)
Appendix: The Size of the Middle Class	147	(2)
Bibliography	149	(10)
Tables	159	(10)
Index	169