These essays [...] trace the uneasy connection between so-called art music and commerical value. [...] The footnoting for all the articles is superb and guides the reader to further fascinating sources.

• Introduction. The Idea of Art Music in a Commercial World - Christina BashfordSelling 'Celebrity': The Role of the Dedication in Marketing Piano Arrangements of Rossini's Military Marches - Denise GalloCreating Successes and Forming Imaginaries: The Innovative Publicity Campaign for Puccini's La bohème - Michela RonzaniNovello, John Stainer and Commercial Opportunities in the Nineteenth-Century British Amateur Music Market - David C.H. WrightJenny Lind, Illustration, Song and the Relationship between Prima Donna and Public - George BiddlecombeA German in Paris: Richard Wagner and the Masking of Commodification - Nicholas VazsonyiConductors and Self-Promotion in the British Nineteenth-Century Marketplace - Fiona M. Palmer'What The Piano[la] Means to the Home': Advertising of Conventional and Player Pianos in the Saturday Evening Post and Ladies' Home Journal, 1914-17 - Catherine Hennessy WolterArt, Commerce and Artisanship: Violin Culture in Britain, c. 1880-1920 - Christina BashfordRead All About It! Ancient Greek Music Hits American Newspapers, 1875-1938 - Jon SolomonSelling a 'False Verdi' in Victorian London - Roberta Montemorra MarvinSchicht, Hauptmann, Mendelssohn and the Consumption of Sacred Music in Leipzig - Jeffrey S. SposatoThe Business of Music on the Peripheries of Empire: A Turn-of-the-Century Case Study - Hilary J Grainger'Disguised Publicity' and the Performativity of Taste: Musical Scores in French Magazines and Newspapers in the Belle Epoque - Jann Pasler

These essays [...] trace the uneasy connection between so-called art music and commerical value. [...] The footnoting for all the articles is superb and guides the reader to further fascinating sources.

• Introduction. The Idea of Art Music in a Commercial World - Christina BashfordSelling 'Celebrity': The Role of the Dedication in Marketing Piano Arrangements of Rossini's Military Marches - Denise GalloCreating Successes and Forming Imaginaries: The Innovative Publicity Campaign for Puccini's La bohème - Michela RonzaniNovello, John Stainer and Commercial Opportunities in the Nineteenth-Century British Amateur Music Market - David C.H. WrightJenny Lind, Illustration, Song and the Relationship between Prima Donna and Public - George BiddlecombeA German in Paris: Richard Wagner and the Masking of Commodification - Nicholas VazsonyiConductors and Self-Promotion in the British Nineteenth-Century Marketplace - Fiona M. Palmer'What The Piano[la] Means to the Home': Advertising of Conventional and Player Pianos in the Saturday Evening Post and Ladies' Home Journal, 1914-17 - Catherine Hennessy WolterArt, Commerce and Artisanship: Violin Culture in Britain, c. 1880-1920 - Christina BashfordRead All About It! Ancient Greek Music Hits American Newspapers, 1875-1938 - Jon SolomonSelling a 'False Verdi' in Victorian London - Roberta Montemorra MarvinSchicht, Hauptmann, Mendelssohn and the Consumption of Sacred Music in Leipzig - Jeffrey S. SposatoThe Business of Music on the Peripheries of Empire: A Turn-of-the-Century Case Study - Hilary J Grainger'Disguised Publicity' and the Performativity of Taste: Musical Scores in French Magazines and Newspapers in the Belle Epoque - Jann Pasler

These essays [...] trace the uneasy connection between so-called art music and commerical value. [...] The footnoting for all the articles is superb and guides the reader to further fascinating sources.

• Introduction. The Idea of Art Music in a Commercial World - Christina BashfordSelling 'Celebrity': The Role of the Dedication in Marketing Piano Arrangements of Rossini's Military Marches - Denise GalloCreating Successes and Forming Imaginaries: The Innovative Publicity Campaign for Puccini's La bohème - Michela RonzaniNovello, John Stainer and Commercial Opportunities in the Nineteenth-Century British Amateur Music Market - David C.H. WrightJenny Lind, Illustration, Song and the Relationship between Prima Donna and Public - George BiddlecombeA German in Paris: Richard Wagner and the Masking of Commodification - Nicholas VazsonyiConductors and Self-Promotion in the British Nineteenth-Century Marketplace - Fiona M. Palmer'What The Piano[la] Means to the Home': Advertising of Conventional and Player Pianos in the Saturday Evening Post and Ladies' Home Journal, 1914-17 - Catherine Hennessy WolterArt, Commerce and Artisanship: Violin Culture in Britain, c. 1880-1920 - Christina BashfordRead All About It! Ancient Greek Music Hits American Newspapers, 1875-1938 - Jon SolomonSelling a 'False Verdi' in Victorian London - Roberta Montemorra MarvinSchicht, Hauptmann, Mendelssohn and the Consumption of Sacred Music in Leipzig - Jeffrey S. SposatoThe Business of Music on the Peripheries of Empire: A Turn-of-the-Century Case Study - Hilary J Grainger'Disguised Publicity' and the Performativity of Taste: Musical Scores in French Magazines and Newspapers in the Belle Epoque - Jann Pasler