The Art of Appreciation: Music and Middlebrow Culture in Modern Britain Volume 30

by Kate Guthrie

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520351673
• ISBN13: 9780520351677
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"