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The Music Room: Betty Freeman's Musical Soirées
- Author(s):
- Jake Johnson (see profile)
- Date:
- 2018
- Group(s):
- American Musicological Society
- Subject(s):
- Music, United States, Twentieth century, Area studies, Avant-garde (Aesthetics), Popular music, Musicology
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- American music, los angeles, Patronage, women in music, 20th-century American music, American studies, Avant-garde, Contemporary music
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6ZC2C
- Abstract:
- For over ten years, Los Angeles arts patron Betty Freeman (1921–2009) welcomed composers, performers, scholars, patrons, and invited guests into her home for a series of monthly musicales that were known as ‘Salotto’. In this article, I analyse Freeman’s musicales within a sociological framework of gender and what Randall Collins calls ‘interaction rituals’. I contextualize these events, which took place in a space in her Beverly Hills home known as the Music Room, within a broader history of salon culture in Los Angeles in the twentieth century – a history that shaped the city’s relationship with the artistic avant-garde and made Los Angeles an important amplifier for many of the most important voices in contemporary Western art music of the last sixty years.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 6 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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