Making Music in Los Angeles: Transforming the Popular - Couverture rigide

Smith, Catherine Parsons

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0520251393 ISBN 13 : 9780520251397

Editeur : University of California Press, 2007

Synopsis

In this fascinating social history of music in Los Angeles from the 1880s to 1940, Catherine Parsons Smith ventures into an often neglected period to discover that during America's Progressive Era, Los Angeles was a center for making music long before it became a major metropolis. She describes the thriving music scene over some sixty years, including opera, concert giving and promotion, and the struggles of individuals who pursued music as an ideal, a career, a trade, a business--or all those things at once. Smith demonstrates that music making was closely tied to broader Progressive Era issues, including political and economic developments, the new roles played by women, and issues of race, ethnicity, and class.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Catherine Parsons Smith is Professor Emerita at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is the author of several books, among them William Grant Still: A Study in Contradictions (UC Press, 1999), which won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520251393
• ISBN 13: 9780520251397
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 392
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible