Institutionalization in Music History

This volume provides new insights into the impact of the development of institutionalization on music, musical practices, and society at large. It is divided into three thematic sections, the first of which deals with the institutionalization of musical practices. The articles move from the emergence of theater and opera culture in nineteenth century Greece to the dominance of radio in the dissemination of music at the height of the disco boom in the United States in the 1970s. The second...