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Cultural Considerations: Essays on Readers, Writers, and Musicians in Postwar America

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Joan Shelley Rubin is best known for her writings on the values, assumptions, and anxieties that have shaped American life, as reflected in both 'high' culture and the experiences of ordinary people. In this volume, she continues that work by exploring processes of mediation that texts undergo as they pass from producers to audiences, while elucidating as well the shifting, contingent nature of cultural hierarchy.

Author(s): Joan Shelley Rubin
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Year: 2013

Language: English
Pages: 197
City: Amherst
Tags: American Literature; History and Criticism; Books and Reading; United States; History;

Cover
Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction: Cultural History in Practice
I Readers & Critics
1. The Genteel Tradition at Large
2. The Scholar and the World: Academic Humanists and General Readers in Postwar America
3. Repossessing the Cozzens-Macdonald Imbroglio: Middlebrow Authorship, Critical Authority, and Autonomous Readers in Postwar America
II Composers, Conductors & Their Audiences
4. The Composer as a Reader: Poetry, Music, and the Politics of a Neglected Genre
5. Ideology and Practice in the Career of Robert Shaw
6. Gunther Schuller: The Musician as Mediator
Conclusion: The Enduring Reader
Notes
Index
About the Author