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Televising Taste: Negotiations of European Classical Music and American Culture in the TV Performances of Leonard Bernstein, Victor Borge, and Nam June Paik

Description:

This dissertation explores how American television portrayed canonical European classical music in the Cold War era. I analyze televisual negotiations of music-cultural hierarchies to complicate common narratives about the postwar decades as a peak moment of polarity between “high” and “low” culture, and between ideologies of consensus and rebellion. Drawing...

Keyword:

American taste, musical comedy, TV history, classical music, television studies, and video art

Subject:

Art history, Music history, and Film studies

Creator:

Kreutzer, Evelyn

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

02/01/2021

Date Created:

2020-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

etdadmin_upload_762848 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15230