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Cavicchi, Daniel.

Title Listening and longing : music lovers in the age of Barnum / Daniel Cavicchi.

Publication Info.	Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2011]
	©2011

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Description	1 online resource.
Series	Music/culture
	Music/culture.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note	Print version record.
Summary	An intriguing look at music listening in nineteenth-century America.
Contents	Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. "P. T. Barnum, Introducing Madelle. Jenny Lind to Ossian E. Dodge": Capitalizing on Music in the Antebellum Era; 2. "I Think I Will Do Nothing ... But Listen": Forming a New Urban Ear; 3. "Music Is What Awakens in You When You Are Reminded by the Instruments": Hearing a New Life at Mid-Century; 4. "How I Should Like to Hear It All Over Again & Again": Loving Music, 1850-1885; 5. "Attempering This Whole People to the Sentiment of Art": Institutionalizing Musical Ecstasy; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography.
Subject	Barnum, P. T., 1810-1891 Barnum, Phineas Taylor.
	Music -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	MUSIC -- History & Criticism.
	Music -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01030444
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1800 - 1899
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Cavicchi, Daniel. Listening and longing. Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, ©2011 9780819571618 (DLC) 2011029924 (OCoLC)712117832
ISBN	9780819571632 (electronic bk.)
	0819571636 (electronic bk.)

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