Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/F8fwFnW Making Music in Los Angeles Transforming the Popular By: Catherine Parsons Smith Publisher: University of California Press Print ISBN: 9780520251397, 0520251393 eText ISBN: 9780520933835, 0520933834 Edition: 1st Pages: 392 Copyright year: 2007 Format: PDF Available from $ 85.00 USD SKU 9780520933835 In this fascinating social history of music in Los Angeles from the 1880s to 1940, Catherine Parsons Smith ventures into an often neglected period to discover that during America's Progressive Era, Los Angeles was a center for making music long before it became a major metropolis. She describes the thriving music scene over some sixty years, including opera, concert giving and promotion, and the struggles of individuals who pursued music as an ideal, a career, a trade, a business--or all those things at once. Smith demonstrates that music making was closely tied to broader Progressive Era issues, including political and economic developments, the new roles played by women, and issues of race, ethnicity, and class.
