This handbook seeks to reanimate the music, institutions, and audiences that made up the cultural middle in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by investigating the wealth of middlebrow culture that bridged the space between highbrow and lowbrow music. With case studies ranging from symphonic concerts to Broadway musicals, from opera criticism to rock journalism, it brings together scholars of classical and popular music to present a new, enriched narrative of music history.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction
- Kate Guthrie and Christopher Chowrimootoo
- Part I: Representation
- 1. Music in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction and the Historiography of the Middle
- Stephen Hinton
- 2. Plain Tunes for Plain Men? Opera and the "Man in the Street" in 1920s Britain
- Alexandra Wilson
- 3. On or about 1932: The Mechanized Middlebrow, the BBC, and the Amateur
- Sarah Collins
- 4. Tchaikovsky in Hollywood. Do we listen?
- Peter Franklin
- 5. Bread and Champagne: Stalinist Musical Comedies of the 1930s and the Soviet Middlebrow
- Peter Kupfer
- 6. Music and the Good Life in Postwar Britain: The Phenomenon of Eileen Joyce
- Heather Wiebe
- 7. Samuel Barber's A Hand of Bridge and Anxieties of the American Middlebrow
- Jacques Dupuis
- 8. Fringe or Middle? Assessing Rock as Late 20th-Century Middlebrow
- Chris McDonald
- 9. Raising a Brow: Sondheim and the Cultural Status of the Broadway Musical
- Dana Gooley
- Part II: Mediation
- 10. Canned Music, Canned Culture: John Philip Sousa and the Proto-Middlebrow
- Keir Keightley
- 11. Forging a Middlebrow Canon in Edwardian London: Landon Ronald and the New Symphony Orchestra
- Simon McVeigh
- 12. How the Early Recorded Operatic Middlebrow was Made
- Karen Henson
- 13. Resisting Middlebrow Mediation: Beethoven's "Grosse Fuge" in Interwar Britain
- Laura Tunbridge
- 14. "All these songs help us to trace history": Black Women and the Black Music History Narrative in the Harlem Renaissance Era
- Lucy Caplan
- 15. The Child and the Musical Masterpiece
- Kate Guthrie
- 16. Public Jazz Education and the Mediation of Jazz History in US Middlebrow Culture (1917-1951)
- Mario Dunkel
- 17. Print Culture and the Mediation of the Classical Canon in the Twentieth-Century United States
- Joan Shelley Rubin
- 18. Symphonies Serious or for Fun: Malcolm Arnold, the BBC, and the Production of Taste
- Philip Rupprecht
- 19. Vera Lynn in Nashville (1977): White Working-Class Femininity and Transatlantic Affinities
- Christina Baade
- Part III: Style
- 20. New Objectivity and the Middlebrow
- John Gabriel
- 21. From Berlin to New York: Kurt Weill, the Fantaisie Symphonique, and the Middlebrow
- Emily MacGregor
- 22. Socialist Realism, Kitsch, and the Middlebrow Symphony
- Pauline Fairclough
- 23. Paul Whiteman and Glorified "Modern American Music," 1927-1934
- John Howland
- 24. Glière's Light Style
- Simon Morrison
- 25. Bond in the Middle: Swinging between High and Low in the Aspirational 1960s
- Kevin Salfen
- 26. Middlebrow Compositional Aesthetics in 1970s Pop-Rock
- Nick Braae
- Index
