The Royal College of Music and its Contexts: An Artistic and Social History (Music since 1900)
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David C. H. Wright (Author)
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Located between the great Victorian museums of South Kensington and the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal College of Music, founded in 1883, has been a central influence on British musical life ever since. This wide-ranging account places the College within its musical and educational environments. It argues that the RCM's significance lies not only in its famous performers and composers, but also the generations of its more anonymous former students who have done so much to improve the musical life of the localities in which they have worked as teachers and animateurs. As a cultural history, this account also captures how significantly society's consumption of music - from new technologies to the altered perspectives of historical and world musics - has changed since the College was founded, and how very different our points of musical reference now are. This study traces the effects of such developments on the College's work. 10 Tables, black and white; 10 Halftones, black and white
About the Author
David C. H. Wright became Reader in the Social History of Music at the Royal College of Music, London after a professional life spent in both music college and university environments. His writings range from the culture and economics of Victorian music publishing to the Prom seasons of William Glock and Robert Ponsonby in The Proms: A New History (2007). In 2013, he published a social and cultural history of the Associated Boards of the Royal Schools of Music.
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- Contributor: David C. H. Wright
- Imprint: Cambridge University Press
- ISBN13: 9781107163386
- Number of Pages: 386
- Packaged Dimensions: 180x253x24mm
- Packaged Weight: 910
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Release Date: 2019-09-05
- Series: Music since 1900
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: David C. H. Wright became Reader in the Social History of Music at the Royal College of Music, London after a professional life spent in both music college and university environments. His writings range from the culture and economics of Victorian music publishing to the Prom seasons of William Glock and Robert Ponsonby in The Proms: A New History (2007). In 2013, he published a social and cultural history of the Associated Boards of the Royal Schools of Music.
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