... musicians and music teachers working there than any other city in America. The chapter then goes on to explain the various topics studied in this book, which is concerned with music making and popular music during the Progressive Era, as well as the experiences and careers of several musicians. It also...

..., diet, and fitness. As she traces the underpinning of modern-day beauty and slimness ideals—as well as the bigotry against people who are overweight—she links seemingly disparate groups in American history including seventeenth-century New England Puritans, Progressive Era New Thought adherents...

... were the technological, the gender related, the entrepreneurial, and the now redefined popular, emphasizing that, after 1926, the Progressive-era culture of music making went through significant changes. Bartók Béla Beethoven Ludwig van Carter Artie Mason chamber music groups and concerts Cowell...

...This chapter traces the maturation of changes on several levels of government and society in California during the 1870s that were to produce what was to be called the Progressive Era. It details the specific institutional arrangements including sensational journalism, interest-group lobbies...

...This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the political construction of urban life in San Francisco, California during the period from 1850 to 1900. It suggests that the new political culture of the Progressive Era revolved around the political claims of social groups...

... men and women at the turn of the century turned to reform with a zeal matched only by one other group: Protestants from New England. This chapter focuses on Jewish reformers and revolutionaries in the Progressive era in San Francisco. It discusses free enterprise in San Francisco, Adolph Sutro and his...

... management. In attempting to execute these visions, the delegates institutionalized a new ideal of hydraulic order. That institutionalization occurred through two simultaneous processes. One was the formulation of a plan for controlling the waters. Here southern Californians drew upon Progressive Era faith...

... in competitive sports leagues, which had evolved to hold the interest of children—the first phase in the development of children's competitive activities. There were key periods of this development: the first was the period from the Progressive Era up to the World War II, the second was the period from postwar...

... Company mechanical harvesters patents technology back to the land movement late–nineteenth and early–twentieth centuries California country life movement fruits hops Humulus lupulus L Kaser Harvey marketing Myrick Herbert Progressive Era temperance movement Wood L D Anheuser Busch brewery...

...This social history of music in Los Angeles from the 1880s to 1940 ventures into an often neglected period to discover that during America's Progressive Era, Los Angeles was a center for making music long before it became a major metropolis. The author describes the thriving music scene over some...