"Music of the Highest Class": Elitism and Populism in Antebellum Boston.

Ronald L. Davis, Michael Broyles

The American Historical Review · 1994 · 32 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

Examines the duality in American musical culture of classical music and vernacular music. Broyles traces its origins to early 19th-century Boston and seeks to show how specifically American forces gave it a different profile from similar developments in Europe.