Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Music Criticism
- The Cambridge History of Music
- The Cambridge History of Music Criticism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Music Examples, Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I The Early History of Music Criticism
- Part II The Rise of the Press
- Part III Critical Influence and Influences
- Part IV Entering the Twentieth Century
- Part V New Areas
- Part VI Developments since the Second World War
- 29 Music Criticism in the USSR from Asafyev to Cherednichenko
- 30 The Feuilleton and Beyond: Criticism in the Federal Republic of Germany and Austria after the Second World War
- 31 Music Criticism in Italy in the Twentieth Century
- 32 Wider Still and Wider: British Music Criticism since the Second World War
- 33 Music Criticism in France since the Second World War
- 34 Old Divisions and New Debates: Music Criticism in Post-War America
- Postlude
- Bibliography
- Index
34 - Old Divisions and New Debates: Music Criticism in Post-War America
from Part VI - Developments since the Second World War
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 August 2019
- The Cambridge History of Music Criticism
- The Cambridge History of Music
- The Cambridge History of Music Criticism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Music Examples, Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I The Early History of Music Criticism
- Part II The Rise of the Press
- Part III Critical Influence and Influences
- Part IV Entering the Twentieth Century
- Part V New Areas
- Part VI Developments since the Second World War
- 29 Music Criticism in the USSR from Asafyev to Cherednichenko
- 30 The Feuilleton and Beyond: Criticism in the Federal Republic of Germany and Austria after the Second World War
- 31 Music Criticism in Italy in the Twentieth Century
- 32 Wider Still and Wider: British Music Criticism since the Second World War
- 33 Music Criticism in France since the Second World War
- 34 Old Divisions and New Debates: Music Criticism in Post-War America
- Postlude
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
‘I do not believe that any mechanical device will put it out of business’, wrote the veteran Sunday editor of the New York Times, Lester Markel, on the fate of the daily newspaper in 1946. Radio had failed to curb America’s appetite for the daily, and Markel was confident that television, then the latest curiosity, would not do so either. Of course, the impact of technological change would, despite Markel’s scepticism, be one of the major factors affecting post-war music criticism in the United States. Television changed the nation’s habits, particularly in terms of news coverage, while newspapers merged and faltered. In the digital age, the entire print journalism model has been transformed as new platforms emerge and open up opportunities. These changes have combined with the major social and cultural shifts that effectively shattered former boundaries and hierarchies about what music gets criticised.
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- The Cambridge History of Music Criticism , pp. 671 - 692Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019