'Food for Apollo': Cultivated Music in Antebellum Philadelphia

by Dorothy T. Potter

Food for Apollo by Dorothy Potter, describes and evaluates the growth and scope of cultivated music in Philadelphia, from the early eighteenth-century to the advent of the Civil War. In many works dealing with American culture, discussion of music's influence is limited to a few significant performances or persons, or ignored altogether. The study of music's role in cultural history is fairly recent, compared to literature, art, and architecture...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611460026
• ISBN13: 9781611460025
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Lehigh University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"