Music of the Highest Class: Elitism and Populism in Antebellum Boston by Broyles, Michael - 1992

New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. The author, a professor and historian of music at the University of Maryland, looks at the place of music in Boston in revolutionary and then early 19th-century America and then some sacred-music reforms by looking at men such as Lowell Mason, Samuel A. Eliot and John S. Dwight. A nearly superior copy inside and out, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear beyond some slight sunning to spine foot; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. ix + 392 pp. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.