Author: Miska Hauser
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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The Letters of Miska Hauser, [1853]
Author: Miska Hauser
Publisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Publisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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W.P.A. Technical Series
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Languages : en
Pages : 70
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Languages : en
Pages : 70
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Consuming Identities
Author: Amy DeFalco Lippert
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190268999
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Along with the rapid expansion of the market economy and industrial production methods, such innovations as photography, lithography, and steam printing created a pictorial revolution in nineteenth-century society. The proliferation of visual prints, ephemera, spectacles, and technologies transformed public values and perceptions, and its legacy was as significant as the print revolution that preceded it. Consuming Identities explores the significance of the pictorial revolution in one of its vanguard cities: San Francisco, the revolving door of the gold rush. In their correspondence, diaries, portraits, and reminiscences, thousands of migrants to the city by the Bay demonstrated that visual media constituted a central means by which people navigated the bewildering host of changes taking hold around them in the second half of the nineteenth century, from the spread of capitalism and class formation to immigration and urbanization. Images themselves were inextricably associated with these world-changing forces; they were commodities, but as representations of people, they also possessed special cultural qualities that gave them new meaning and significance. Visual media transcended traditional boundaries of language and culture that divided diverse groups within the same urban space. From the 1848 conquest of California and the gold discovery to the disastrous earthquake and fire of 1906, San Francisco anticipated broader cultural transformations in the commodification, implementation, and popularity of images. For the city's inhabitants and sojourners, an array of imagery came to mediate, intersect with, and even constitute social interaction in a world where virtual reality was becoming normative.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190268999
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Along with the rapid expansion of the market economy and industrial production methods, such innovations as photography, lithography, and steam printing created a pictorial revolution in nineteenth-century society. The proliferation of visual prints, ephemera, spectacles, and technologies transformed public values and perceptions, and its legacy was as significant as the print revolution that preceded it. Consuming Identities explores the significance of the pictorial revolution in one of its vanguard cities: San Francisco, the revolving door of the gold rush. In their correspondence, diaries, portraits, and reminiscences, thousands of migrants to the city by the Bay demonstrated that visual media constituted a central means by which people navigated the bewildering host of changes taking hold around them in the second half of the nineteenth century, from the spread of capitalism and class formation to immigration and urbanization. Images themselves were inextricably associated with these world-changing forces; they were commodities, but as representations of people, they also possessed special cultural qualities that gave them new meaning and significance. Visual media transcended traditional boundaries of language and culture that divided diverse groups within the same urban space. From the 1848 conquest of California and the gold discovery to the disastrous earthquake and fire of 1906, San Francisco anticipated broader cultural transformations in the commodification, implementation, and popularity of images. For the city's inhabitants and sojourners, an array of imagery came to mediate, intersect with, and even constitute social interaction in a world where virtual reality was becoming normative.
W. P. A. Technical Series
Author: United States. Work Projects Administration
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 988
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Languages : en
Pages : 988
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Good Music for a Free People
Author: Nancy Newman
Publisher: University Rochester Press
ISBN: 1580463452
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
A transatlantic perspective that illuminates the Germania Musical Society's crucial role in introducing a "classical," predominantly German, repertory of instrumental works into American musical life. In Good Music for a Free People, author Nancy Newman examines the activities and reception of the Germania Musical Society, an orchestra whose members emigrated from Berlin during the Revolutions of 1848. These two dozen "Forty-Eighters" gave nearly a thousand concerts in North America during the ensuing six-year period, possibly reaching a million listeners. Drawing on a memoir by member Henry Albrecht, Newman provides insights into the musicians'desire to bring their music to the audiences of a democratic republic at this turbulent time. Eager to avoid the egotism and self-promotion of the European patronage system, they pledged to work for their mutual interests both musically and socially. "One for all, and all for one" became their motto. Originally published in German, Albrecht's memoir is presented here in for the first time in translation. Nancy Newman is Associate Professor in the Music Department at the University at Albany, SUNY.
Publisher: University Rochester Press
ISBN: 1580463452
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
A transatlantic perspective that illuminates the Germania Musical Society's crucial role in introducing a "classical," predominantly German, repertory of instrumental works into American musical life. In Good Music for a Free People, author Nancy Newman examines the activities and reception of the Germania Musical Society, an orchestra whose members emigrated from Berlin during the Revolutions of 1848. These two dozen "Forty-Eighters" gave nearly a thousand concerts in North America during the ensuing six-year period, possibly reaching a million listeners. Drawing on a memoir by member Henry Albrecht, Newman provides insights into the musicians'desire to bring their music to the audiences of a democratic republic at this turbulent time. Eager to avoid the egotism and self-promotion of the European patronage system, they pledged to work for their mutual interests both musically and socially. "One for all, and all for one" became their motto. Originally published in German, Albrecht's memoir is presented here in for the first time in translation. Nancy Newman is Associate Professor in the Music Department at the University at Albany, SUNY.
Celebrities in El Dorado
Author: History of Music Project
Publisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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Publisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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A San Francisco Songster, 1849-1939
Author: History of Music Project
Publisher:
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Category : Folk songs
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Category : Folk songs
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Library Accessions
Author: United States. Work Projects Administration. Research Library
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Category : Government libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Category : Government libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas
Author: New York Public Library. Reference Dept
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
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Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
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