Music and the Middle Class: The Social Structure of Concert Life in London, Paris and Vienna between 1830 and 1848

First published in 1975, Music and the Middle Class made a trail-blazing contribution to the social history of music, bringing together sociological and historical methods that have subsequently become accepted as central to the discipline of musicology. This classic text is reissued here in Ashgate's Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain series, and features a substantial new preface which takes into account the significant work that has been done in this field since the book first appeared.

William Weber is Professor of History, California State University, Long Beach, USA.