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Street Music in the Metropolis
Street Music in the Metropolis: Correspondence and Observations on the Existing Law, and Proposed Amendments
Author: Michael Thomas Bass
Publisher: Sagwan Press
Published: 2018-02-03
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781376551983
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Street Music in the Metropolis
Author: Michael Thomas Bass
Publisher: Nabu Press
Published: 2013-11
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781293330548
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Street Music in the Metropolis
Author: Michael Thomas Bass
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2018-01-16
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780483192232
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from Street Music in the Metropolis: Correspondence and Observations on the Existing Law, and Proposed Amendments As I am well aware of the engrossing nature of the pursuits which occupy the attention of Members of both Houses of Parliament, I have thought it ad visable to publish here, in a form that may be readily perused, a pre'cis of the Street Music Griev ance, containing extracts from the Letters and Statements of a few of my correspondents: their intrinsic interest will, I trust, be a sufficient apology for their publication. I have also included extracts from newspapers and reviews, and reports of some of the Police Magistrates' decisions; all which evi dence will enable any Member of the Legislature and the public generally to form a correct Opinion of the real state of the existing law, and will demonstrate what great obstacles are opposed by street music to the progress of art, science, and literature; and what torm'ents are infiicted on the studious, the sensitive, and the afflicted. At the same time, I have embraced the opportunity of explaining what the Bill I have introduced into the House of Commons really is intended to effect, as hitherto a great deal of mis conception has existed with regard to its scope and provisions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Sounds of the Metropolis
Author: Derek B. Scott
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008-07-31
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0190294892
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The phrase "popular music revolution" may instantly bring to mind such twentieth-century musical movements as jazz and rock 'n' roll. In Sounds of the Metropolis, however, Derek Scott argues that the first popular music revolution actually occurred in the nineteenth century, illustrating how a distinct group of popular styles first began to assert their independence and values. He explains the popular music revolution as driven by social changes and the incorporation of music into a system of capitalist enterprise, which ultimately resulted in a polarization between musical entertainment (or "commercial" music) and "serious" art. He focuses on the key genres and styles that precipitated musical change at that time, and that continued to have an impact upon popular music in the next century. By the end of the nineteenth century, popular music could no longer be viewed as watered down or more easily assimilated art music; it had its own characteristic techniques, forms, and devices. As Scott shows, "popular" refers here, for the first time, not only to the music's reception, but also to the presence of these specific features of style. The shift in meaning of "popular" provided critics with tools to condemn music that bore the signs of the popular-which they regarded as fashionable and facile, rather than progressive and serious. A fresh and persuasive consideration of the genesis of popular music on its own terms, Sounds of the Metropolis breaks new ground in the study of music, cultural sociology, and history.
City of Noise
Author: Aimee Boutin
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2015-05-15
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0252097262
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Beloved as the city of light, Paris in the nineteenth century sparked the acclaim of poets and the odium of the bourgeois with its distinctive sounds. Street vendors bellowed songs known as the Cris de Paris that had been associated with their trades since the Middle Ages; musicians itinerant and otherwise played for change; and flâneurs-writers, fascinated with the city's underside, listened and recorded much about what they heard. Aimée Boutin tours the sonic space that orchestrated the different, often conflicting sound cultures that defined the street ambience of Paris. Mining accounts that range from guidebooks to verse, Boutin braids literary, cultural, and social history to reconstruct a lost auditory environment. Throughout, impressions of street noise shape writers' sense of place and perception of modern social relations. As Boutin shows, the din of the Cris contrasted economic abundance with the disparities of the capital, old and new traditions, and the vibrancy of street commerce with an increasing bourgeois demand for quiet. In time, peddlers who provided the soundtrack for Paris's narrow streets yielded to modernity, with its taciturn shopkeepers and wide-open boulevards, and the fading songs of the Cris became a dirge for the passing of old ways.
Musical Metropolis
Author: K. Marcus
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2004-12-16
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1403978360
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Decentralization and diversity characterized much of the performance of art music in Los Angeles. Decentralization defined the city's growth since the late-nineteenth century, and because the central city did not dominate music culture, as in the East and Midwest, a greater diversification of music emerged in the communities of Greater Los Angeles. Performers and audiencesincluded Latinos, Euro-Americans, Asian Americans, and African Americans, but the notion of diversity goes beyond ethnicity; it also includes 'media diversity', the presentation of music through a variety of media. recording, radio, film media strongly influenced music performance in the city as it grew into the epicenter of entertainment in America.
Victorian Soundscapes
Author: John M. Picker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003-09-04
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780195151916
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Far from the hushed restraint we associate with the Victorians, their world pulsated with sound. This book shows how, in more ways than one, Victorians were hearing things. John Picker draws upon literary and scientific works to recapture the Victorian sense of aural discovery.
Sound Knowledge
Author: J. Q. Davies
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2017-01-30
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 022640210X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What does it mean to hear scientifically? What does it mean to see musically? This volume uncovers a new side to the long nineteenth century in London, a hidden history in which virtuosic musical entertainment and scientific discovery intersected in remarkable ways. Sound Knowledge examines how scientific truth was accrued by means of visual and aural experience, and, in turn, how musical knowledge was located in relation to empirical scientific practice. James Q. Davies and Ellen Lockhart gather work by leading scholars to explore a crucial sixty-year period, beginning with Charles Burney’s ambitious General History of Music, a four-volume study of music around the globe, and extending to the Great Exhibition of 1851, where musical instruments were assembled alongside the technologies of science and industry in the immense glass-encased collections of the Crystal Palace. Importantly, as the contributions show, both the power of science and the power of music relied on performance, spectacle, and experiment. Ultimately, this volume sets the stage for a new picture of modern disciplinarity, shining light on an era before the division of aural and visual knowledge.
