The Art of Appreciation

Music and Middlebrow Culture in Modern Britain

Kate Guthrie (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

306 Seiten

2021
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-35167-7 (ISBN)

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From the BBC Proms to Bernstein's Young People's Concerts, initiatives to promote classical music have been a pervasive feature of twentieth-century musical life. The goal of these initiatives was rarely just to reach a larger and more diverse audience but to teach a particular way of listening that would help the public "appreciate" music. This book examines for the first time how and why music appreciation has had such a defining and long-lasting impact—well beyond its roots in late-Victorian liberalism. It traces the networks of music educators, philanthropists, policy makers, critics, composers, and musicians who, rather than resisting new mass media, sought to harness their pedagogic potential. The book explores how listening became embroiled in a nexus of modern problems around citizenship, leisure, and education. In so doing, it ultimately reveals how a new cultural milieu—the middlebrow—emerged at the heart of Britain's experience of modernity.

Kate Guthrie is Lecturer in Music at the University of Bristol.

List of Figures and Music Examples

1. The Art of Appreciation

2. "Audiences of the Future"
The Robert Mayer Concerts for Children (1924–1939)

3. Victorians on Radio
Music and the Ordinary Listener (1926–1939)

4. Music Education on Film
Instruments of the Orchestra (1946)

5. Outside the Ivory Tower
Extra-Mural Music at the University of Birmingham (1948–1964)

6. The Avant-Garde Goes to School
O Magnum Mysterium (1960)

7. Epilogue
The Middlebrow in an Age of Cultural Pluralism

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.10.2021
Reihe/Serie	California Studies in 20th-Century Music ; 30
Zusatzinfo	14 music examples, 10 b-w illustrations
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	590 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
ISBN-10	0-520-35167-3 / 0520351673
ISBN-13	978-0-520-35167-7 / 9780520351677
Zustand	Neuware