The Salisbury Annual Musical Festival 1770-1800
Provincial Culture in TransitionAuthor: Driscoll, Patrick1
Source: Cultural and Social History, Volume 5, Number 1, March 2008 , pp. 33-52(20)
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Abstract:
By analysing the factors that precipitated the decline of what had been a flourishing provincial institution, the Salisbury music festival, this article captures late eighteenth-century provincial culture at a stage of transition from a society dominated by aristocratic patronage to an increasingly commercial society. It argues that the displacement of gentlemen amateurs from the heart of Salisbury's musical culture and their replacement by professional musicians and concert managers brought about a change in attitudes to music in the city. Ultimately, these modernizing influences of commercialization and professionalization proved detrimental to the grand occasion of the Salisbury musical festival, prioritizing alternative concert forms and a commercial, rather than civic, attitude to music.Keywords: SALISBURY; MUSIC; COMMERCIALIZATION; PROFESSIONALIZATION; CIVIC CULTURE
Document Type: Research article
DOI: 10.2752/147800408X267247
Affiliations: 1: Christ's College, Cambridge;, Email: pmd25@cam.ac.uk
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