{"product_id":"live-music-in-america-a-history-from-jenny-lind-to-beyonc-9780197570548","title":"Live Music in America: A History from Jenny Lind to Beyoncé","description":"When the Swedish concert singer Jenny Lind toured the U.S. in 1850, she became the prototype for the modern pop star. Meanwhile, her manager, P.T. Barnum, became the prototype for another figure of enduring significance: the pop culture impresario. Starting with Lind's fabled U.S. tour and winding all the way into the twenty-first century, \u003cem\u003eLive Music in America \u003c\/em\u003esurveys the ongoing impact and changing conditions of live music performance in the U.S. It covers a range of historic performances, from the Fisk Jubilee Singers expanding the sphere of African American music in the 1870s, to Benny Goodman bringing swing to Carnegie Hall in 1938, to 1952's Moondog Coronation Ball in Cleveland - arguably the first rock and roll concert - to Beyoncé's boundary-shattering performance at the 2018 Coachella festival. More than that, the book details the roles played by performers, audiences, media commentators, and a variety of live music producers (promoters, agents, sound and stage technicians) in shaping what live music means and how it has evolved.\u003cem\u003e Live Music in America\u003c\/em\u003e connects what occurs behind the scenes to what takes place on stage to highlight the ways in which live music is very deliberately produced and does not just spontaneously materialize. Along the way, author Steve Waksman uses previously unstudied archival materials to shed new light on the origins of jazz, the emergence of rock 'n' roll, and the rise of the modern music festival.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSteve Waksman\u003c\/strong\u003e is Elsie Irwin Sweeney Professor of Music at Smith College, Massachusetts. His publications include the books \u003cem\u003eInstruments of\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eDesire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience\u003c\/em\u003e (1999), and \u003cem\u003eThis Ain't the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk\u003c\/em\u003e (2009), the latter of which was awarded the 2010 Woody Guthrie Award for best scholarly book on popular music by the U.S. chapter of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-US). With Reebee Garofalo, he is the co-author of the sixth edition of the rock history textbook, \u003cem\u003eRockin' Out: Popular Music in the U.S.A.\u003c\/em\u003e (2014), and with Andy Bennett, he co-edited the \u003cem\u003eSAGE Handbook of Popular Music\u003c\/em\u003e (2015). His essays have appeared in such collections as the \u003cem\u003eCambridge Companion to the Guitar, Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop, Metal Rules the Globe, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre and Popular Music.\u003c\/em\u003e On WRSI radio, The River in Western Massachusetts, he can be heard as the \"Doctor of Rock,\" offering bits of popular music history in support of Black History Month and Women's History Month.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50673730617618,"sku":"9780197570548","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f807508d-bd0f-41fd-b0a5-b05f2e62fca8.jpg?v=1733842031","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/live-music-in-america-a-history-from-jenny-lind-to-beyonc-9780197570548","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}