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Live music in America a history from Jenny Lind to Beyoncé Steve Waksman

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Author:
Waksman, Steve  Search this
Physical description:
1 online resource (xiv, 677 pages) illustrations (some colour)
Type:
Electronic resources
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Place:
United States
Date:
2022
Notes:
Also issued in print: 2022
Elecresource
Summary:
When the Swedish concert singer Jenny Lind toured the U.S. in 1850, she became the prototype for the modern pop star. Meanwhile, her manager, P.T. Barnum, became the prototype for another figure of enduring significance: the pop culture impresario. Starting with Lind's fabled U.S. tour and winding all the way into the 21st century, this book surveys the ongoing impact and changing conditions of live music performance in the U.S. It covers a range of historic performances, from the Fisk Jubilee Singers expanding the sphere of African American music in the 1870s, to Benny Goodman bringing swing to Carnegie Hall in 1938, to 1952's Moondog Coronation Ball in Cleveland - arguably the first rock and roll concert - to Beyoncé's boundary-shattering performance at the 2018 Coachella festival
Topic:
Popular music--History and criticism  Search this
Music--Performance  Search this
Popular music  Search this
Call number:
ML200 .W35 2022 (Internet)
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1160676