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This lively history immerses the reader in San Francisco's musical life during the first half of the twentieth century, showing how a fractious community overcame virulent partisanship to establish cultural monuments such as the San Francisco Symphony (1911) and Opera (1923). Leta E. Miller draws on primary source material and first-hand knowledge of the music to argue that a utopian vision counterbalanced partisan interests and inspired cultural endeavors, including the San Francisco Conservatory, two world fairs, and America's first municipally owned opera house. Miller demonstrates that rampant racism, initially directed against Chinese laborers (and their music), reappeared during the 1930's in the guise of labor unrest as WPA music activities exploded in vicious battles between administrators and artists, and African American and white jazz musicians competed for jobs in nightclubs.

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Joseph Horowitz writes in Moral Fire: "If the Met's screaming Wagnerites standing on chairs (in the 1890's) are unthinkable today, it is partly because we mistrust high feeling. Our children avidly specialize in vicarious forms of electronic interpersonal diversion. Our laptops and televisions ensnare us in a surrogate world that shuns all but facile passions; only Jon Stewart and Bill Maher share moments of moral outrage disguised as comedy." Arguing that the past can prove instructive and inspirational, Horowitz revisits four astonishing personalities-Henry Higginson, Laura Langford, Henry Krehbiel and Charles Ives-whose missionary work in the realm of culture signaled a belief in the fundamental decency of civilized human nature, in the universality of moral values, and in progress toward a kingdom of peace and love.

Music --- Music patronage --- Musical criticism --- Hermeneutics (Music) --- Music criticism --- Journalism --- Business patronage of music --- Corporations --- Maecenatism --- Patronage of music --- Performing arts sponsorship --- History and criticism. --- History --- History and criticism --- Higginson, Henry Lee, --- Krehbiel, Henry Edward, --- Holloway, Laura C. --- Ives, Charles, --- Ives, Charles Edward, --- Aĭvz, Ch., --- Aĭvz, Charlʹz, --- Holloway-Langford, Laura, --- Langford, Laura Carter Holloway, --- Krehbiel, H. E. --- Ives, Charles E. --- Ives, Charles --- Ives, Charles Edward --- 19th century music. --- 20th century music. --- american culture. --- american history. --- american music history. --- american musical life. --- american studies. --- boston symphony orchestra. --- charles ives. --- classic music. --- classical music. --- classical orchestra. --- cultural historians. --- gilded age. --- henry higginson. --- henry krehbiel. --- history of music. --- human nature. --- laura langford. --- moral values. --- music history and criticism. --- music lovers. --- music studies. --- musicians and historians. --- musicology. --- turn of the century america. --- us culture. --- us history.

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New York City has always been a mecca in the history of jazz, and in many ways the city's jazz scene is more important now than ever before. Blowin' the Blues Away examines how jazz has thrived in New York following its popular resurgence in the 1980's. Using interviews, in-person observation, and analysis of live and recorded events, ethnomusicologist Travis A. Jackson explores both the ways in which various participants in the New York City jazz scene interpret and evaluate performance, and the criteria on which those interpretations and evaluations are based. Through the notes and words of its most accomplished performers and most ardent fans, jazz appears not simply as a musical style, but as a cultural form intimately influenced by and influential upon American concepts of race, place, and spirituality.

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