Performers: Celebrity

Catalog description

This course looks at the history of popular, vernacular, and art music in various time periods. Studying music from the ground up, we examine how performers have influenced music history. This introductory course looks at the history of celebrity culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. From "rival queen" actress-singers on London stages to mania over virtuoso instrumentalists, we will explore how celebrities dazzled fans, popularized repertoire, manipulated their public images, and were depicted in the media.