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"As Tennyson said of Camelot, Los Angeles was a city built to music. Choirs, touring opera companies, a symphony orchestra, musical pageants, the Hollywood Bowl, film scores of surprising power, and radio provided building blocks of identity for the City of Angels equal to aqueduct, automobile, or freeway. Comprehensively, Kenneth H. Marcus has assembled the story and scores of the music that helped build a city." - Kevin Starr, University Professor of History, University of Southern California and State Librarian Emeritus
"Musical Metropolis is a skillfully researched account which addresses the relatively unexamined subject of music in the cultural life of Los Angeles between 1880 and 1940. It examines the unique aspects of the city's regional culture distinguished by geographic and ethnic differences. This richly detailed study also highlights the local development of film, radio, and recorded music, noting its consequent impact on worldwide audiences. Readers will benefit from the fact that examples of the broad range of musical genres discussed are represented on the accompanying CD." - Gloria Ricci Lothrop, Professor of History Emerita, California State University, Northridge
"Musical Metropolis is a terrific book: both a history of musical expression in Los Angeles and an insightful cultural history of the city." - William Deverell, Director, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West
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Director of the International Studies Institute, University of La Verne, California.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Musical Metropolis
Book Subtitle: Los Angeles and the Creation of a Music Culture, 1880–1940
Authors: Kenneth H. Marcus
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403978363
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Kenneth H. Marcus 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6419-9Published: 24 December 2004
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-7836-3Published: 16 December 2004
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 274
Topics: Music, Regional and Cultural Studies, History of the Americas