Listening and Longing: Music Lovers in the Age of Barnum

by Daniel Cavicchi

An intriguing look at music listening in nineteenth-century America

Winner of the Northeast Popular Culture Association's Peter C. Rollins Book Award (2012)
Winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award (2012)

Listening and Longing explores the emergence of music listening in the United States, from its early stages in the antebellum era, when entrepreneurs first packaged and sold the experience of hearing musical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819571628
• ISBN13: 9780819571625
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher