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Live music in America : a history from Jenny Lind to Beyoncé /

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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 wind...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Waksman, Steve (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Popular music > United States > History and criticism.
Music > Performance > United States.
Musique populaire > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Musique > Exécution > États-Unis.
Social History.
HISTORY.
Business Aspects.
MUSIC.
History & Criticism.
Genres & Styles.
Music > Performance
Popular music
United States
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Toward a history of liveness
  • Selling the nightingale : Jenny Lind, P.T. Barnum, and the management of the American crowd
  • Staging the spiritual : the Fisk Jubilee Singers and the postbellum public sphere
  • Economies of performance : Tony Pastor, Ernest Hogan, and the emergence of vaudeville
  • Remaking liveness : the social geography of early jazz
  • Culture high and low : reinventing concert music
  • The perfect package : rock 'n' roll concerts in the 1950s
  • Crowds, chaos, and community : music festivals from Newport to New Orleans
  • The politics of scale : arenas, stadiums, and the industrialization of liveness
  • Staging hip-hop : race, rap, and the remapping of musical performance
  • Conclusion: A homecoming.