Introduction Kate Guthrie and Christopher Chowrimootoo Part I: Representation 1. Music in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction and the Historiography of the Middle Stephen Hinton 2. Plain Tunes for Plain Men? Opera and the "Man in the Street" in 1920s Britain Alexandra Wilson 3. On or about 1932: The Mechanized Middlebrow, the BBC, and the Amateur Sarah Collins 4. Tchaikovsky in Hollywood. Do we listen? Peter Franklin 5. Bread and Champagne: Stalinist Musical Comedies of the 1930s and the Soviet Middlebrow Peter Kupfer 6. Music and the Good Life in Postwar Britain: The Phenomenon of Eileen Joyce Heather Wiebe 7.

Samuel Barber's A Hand of Bridge and Anxieties of the American Middlebrow Jacques Dupuis 8. Fringe or Middle? Assessing Rock as Late 20th-Century Middlebrow Chris McDonald 9. Raising a Brow: Sondheim and the Cultural Status of the Broadway Musical Dana Gooley Part II: Mediation 10. Canned Music, Canned Culture: John Philip Sousa and the Proto-Middlebrow Keir Keightley 11. Forging a Middlebrow Canon in Edwardian London: Landon Ronald and the New Symphony Orchestra Simon McVeigh 12. How the Early Recorded Operatic Middlebrow was Made Karen Henson 13. Resisting Middlebrow Mediation: Beethoven's "Grosse Fuge" in Interwar Britain Laura Tunbridge 14. "All these songs help us to trace history": Black Women and the Black Music History Narrative in the Harlem Renaissance Era Lucy Caplan 15.

The Child and the Musical Masterpiece Kate Guthrie 16. Public Jazz Education and the Mediation of Jazz History in US Middlebrow Culture (1917-1951) Mario Dunkel 17. Print Culture and the Mediation of the Classical Canon in the Twentieth-Century United States Joan Shelley Rubin 18. Symphonies Serious or for Fun: Malcolm Arnold, the BBC, and the Production of Taste Philip Rupprecht 19. Vera Lynn in Nashville (1977): White Working-Class Femininity and Transatlantic Affinities Christina Baade Part III: Style 20. New Objectivity and the Middlebrow John Gabriel 21. From Berlin to New York: Kurt Weill, the Fantaisie Symphonique, and the Middlebrow Emily MacGregor 22. Socialist Realism, Kitsch, and the Middlebrow Symphony Pauline Fairclough 23.

Paul Whiteman and Glorified "Modern American Music," 1927-1934 John Howland 24. Glière's Light Style Simon Morrison 25. Bond in the Middle: Swinging between High and Low in the Aspirational 1960s Kevin Salfen 26. Middlebrow Compositional Aesthetics in 1970s Pop-Rock Nick Braae Index.