Music and the New Global Culture
From the Great Exhibitions to the Jazz Age
- Contents
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PART I CRAFT
1 A German Connoisseur in Cosmopolitan England
2 An English Craftsman Discovers World Music
PART II SCIENCE
3 Sound in Historical Time
4 Scales around the World
5 Is It Noise, or Is It Music?
6 Music’s Global Archive
PART III COMMERCE
7 Phonographs around the World
8 Americans Abroad: Innocents and Transnationals
9 A Global Empire of Sound
10 Commerce versus Culture
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Further Reading
Index
History: European History | General History | History of Ideas
Music: General Music
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