Oxford University Press, USA 2008 Hardcover Good Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

ISBN10: 0195309464, ISBN13: 9780195309461, [publisher: Oxford University Press, USA] Hardcover Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.35
[Dallas, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2008]

ISBN10: 0195309464, ISBN13: 9780195309461, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover 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 ...

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ISBN10: 0195309464, ISBN13: 9780195309461, [publisher: OUP USA] Hardcover Sounds of the Metropolis: The 19th-Century Popular Music Revolution in London, New York, Paris, and Vienna This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .
[Wallingford, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2008]

ISBN10: 0195309464, ISBN13: 9780195309461, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover Text clean and tight; no dust jacket; 9.29 X 6.38 X 1.10 inches; 320 pages
[Baldwin City, KS, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2008]

ISBN10: 0195309464, ISBN13: 9780195309461, [publisher: OUP USA] Hardcover Sounds of the Metropolis: The 19th-Century Popular Music Revolution in London, New York, Paris, and Vienna This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .
[Wallingford, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2008]

New York, NY Oxford University Press, USA 2008 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 320 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Printed music items.

ISBN10: 0195309464, ISBN13: 9780195309461, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover
[Columbia, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2008]
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ISBN10: 0195309464, ISBN13: 9780195309461, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover
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