The Politics of Finance in Developing Countries (Cornell Studies in Political Economy)

By Stephan Haggard and Chung H. Lee

Book Overview

In this second volume of Strong on Music , Vera Brodsky Lawrence carries into the 1850s her landmark account of the nineteenth-century New York music scene. Using music entries from George Templeton Strong's famous journals-most published here for the first time-as a point of departure, Lawrence provides a vivid portrait of a vibrant musical culture. Each chapter presents one year in the musical life of New York City, with Lawrence's extensive commentary enriched both by excerpts from Strong's diaries and a lavish selection of little-known music criticism and comment from the period. The reviews, written by an often truculent, sometimes venal tribe of music journalists, cover the entire world of music-from opera to barrel organ, salon to saloon. In this New York, operas performed by renowned artists are parodied by blackface minstrels; performances of the Philharmonic Society are drowned by the raucous chatter of flirtatious adolescents, who turn concerts into a noisy singles' hangout; and irate critics trash the first performances of Verdi operas, calling the plots indecent and the scores noisy and unmelodic. In this volatile atmosphere, a native musical culture is born; its whose first faltering efforts are dubiously received, and the first American composers begin to emerge.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801481309
• ISBN13: 9780801481307
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"