| Description |
1617 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. I 1800-1830 : the pre-conditions -- 1 Sources of cultural expansion -- 2 Triumphant languages -- 3 Publishing -- 4 Peddling stories -- 5 Foundation stories -- 6 Fairy tales -- 7 Novels -- 8 Trailblazers -- 9 Walter Scott 'in unclouded splendour' -- 10 Cultural hegemony -- 11 This is not a fiction -- 12 News and pictures -- 13 The music market -- 14 Audiences and performers -- 15 Opera -- 16 Theatre -- Pt. II 1830-1880 : the triumph of Bourgeois culture -- 17 Books for the people -- 18 Newspapers, magazines and pictures -- 19 Money matters -- 20 Reading by instalments -- 21 Repressing culture -- 22 Beloved writers -- 23 Great genres -- 24 Women and novels -- 25 Challenging the trailblazers -- 26 Improving oneself -- 27 Music, composers and virtuosi -- 28 The triumph of the opera -- 29 Theatricals -- Pt. III 1880-1920 : the revolution -- 30 The revolution in communications -- 31 Workers, Jews, women -- 32 The internationalisation of the novel -- 33 Zola : money, fame and conscience -- 34 Stories of crime and science fiction -- 35 Popular novels, for young and old -- 36 The popular press -- 37 Shows -- 38 Music -- 39 Recorded sound -- 40 The moving image -- 41 Cinema : Europeans and Americans -- 42 Cultural panics -- Pt. IV 1920-1960 : the interventionist state -- 43 States and markets -- 44 Culture and communism -- 45 Fascism -- 46 Mass culture : the American challenge -- 47 Interwar cinema -- 48 The cinema after World War II -- 49 More books -- 50 Popular genres : crimes and the future -- 51 The press -- 52 Comic strips -- 53 Live spectacles -- 54 The triumph of the song -- 55 Radio -- Pt. V After 1960 : the era of the mass media -- 56 Television : the universal medium -- 57 The flow of genres on television -- 58 The break-up of television -- 59 Going out : cinema and theatre -- 60 Culture in the 'other' Europe : communism -- 61 A world of readers -- 62 Exploding Pop -- Conclusion : the World Wide Web |
| Summary |
"This wide-ranging and hugely ambitious book offers, for the first time ever, an integrated history of the culture produced and consumed by Europeans since 1800, and follows its transformation from an elite activity to a mass market - from lending libraries to the internet, from the first public concerts to music downloads."--BOOK JACKET |
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Europe -- Civilization -- 18th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045638
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Europe -- Civilization -- 19th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045639
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Europe -- Civilization -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045640
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Europe -- Social life and customs -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045761
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Europe -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045762
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Europe -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045760 -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476
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| ISBN |
0002558793 hardback |
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9780002558792 hardback |
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