Blanning, Tim <br/><br/>
The triumph of music :  composers, musicians and their audiences, 1700 to the present / 
by Tim Blanning 
 - London :  Penguin books,  2008 
 - x, 416 p. :  ill. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-352) and index 
<br/><br/>Status : you are a God-man, the true artist by God's grace -- Purpose : music is the most romantic of all the arts -- Places and spaces : from palace to stadium -- Technology : from Stradivarius to Stratocaster -- Liberation : nation, people, sex 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780141038957 (pbk)  £6.99 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Music--Social aspects--History<br/>Musicians--Social conditions
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.484209  / BLA