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Music 271: 2/28/07II: Continued discussion of the cultivation and sacralization of European Art music in post-Civil War America: A: The role of Upper-Middle Class Elites in cultivating E.A.M:• John Sullivan Dwight - 1852-1881 established Dwight’s Journal of Music• Dwight believed in the superiority of Central European Art Music• Cultivated music - music that has been imported by another culture• Modern Applications - 1911: NY Philharmonic received $1M only if they featured the donor’s favorite composers in their concerts• Elites used Art Music as a way to separate themselves from the immigrants• Patronized orchestras and opera companies• “Art music is not for everyone” - Theodore Thomas• Social status and elitism are the result of European Art Music B: Statistical evidence of the privileged place of Germanic orchestral music:• More than 50% of music played in the early 20th-century was Austro-Germanic in origin C: The Concept of Nationalism: Temperley’s Theory of its evolution: (GB p. 62)• Nationalism - asser
