Class, Control, and Classical Music
Class, Control, and Classical Music

Author: Anna Bull

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0190844353

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Through an ethnographic study of young people playing and singing in classical music ensembles in the south of England, this text analyses why classical music in England is predominantly practiced by white middle-class people. It describes four 'articulations' or associations between the middle classes and classical music.

Music of the Highest Class
Music of the Highest Class

Author: Michael Broyles

Publisher:

Published: 1992-01-01

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780300054958

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Examines the duality in American musical culture of classical music and vernacular music. Broyles traces its origins to early 19th-century Boston and seeks to show how specifically American forces gave it a different profile from similar developments in Europe.