| Description |
xxi, 374 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-352) and index. |
| Contents |
The birth of critic bedlam : Gotham as the wild, wild west -- Emerson, Whitman, and John Sullivan Dwight : hitching wagons to a Euterpean star -- American music criticism's first empire : the long day's journey into night of the "old guard" -- Gilded age gadfly : James Gibbons Huneker, garrulous steeplejack of the arts -- Thumbing his nose at the old guard : H. L. Mencken, maestro of the bozart -- The American composer-critic tradition : from pierian spring to self-promotion -- Highbrow, lowbrow, middlebrow : the music appreciation racket, or flacking for Parnassus -- Virgil Thomson : sacred cow sharpshooter -- American music criticism's second empire : power brokers and paper tigers -- Twentieth-century rondo : cutting edge versus neo-con -- The postmodern synthesis : whither the vanishing classical music critic? |
| Subject |
Musical criticism -- United States -- History.
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Music -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Music -- United States -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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| Added Author |
Friedheim, Eric.
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| ISBN |
1555533639 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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