Shamus Khan: From Cultural Purity to Segregated Inclusion: Subscribers to the New York Philharmonic in the Gilded Age from for how many subscribers in youtube Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 28 min 95 sec ✓ Published: 19-Jan-2016
Description: This talk explores how cultural participation cemented the status of elites in late nineteenth-century America and how culture worked as an elite resource in that era. It is based on an analysis of a new database of subscribers to the New York Philharmonic including information on who subscribed to the Philharmonic between 1880 and 1910 – by many accounts a key period of upper class consolidation in the United States. The talk partly argues with the classic account of monopolization and exclus