Understanding Toscanini: A Social History of American Concert Life
"A cri de coeur about the philistinism and commercialism of  contemporary  society."  --Edward Said, New York Times Book Review"A major achievement, the kind of detailed case-study of the  role of  serious music in a popular culture that has never been attempted  before."  --Richard Dyer, Boston Globe"A socioeconomic study of the classical music industry and of  the  growth, through radio, recording, and television, of musical mass  culture. . . .  No one concerned with the fate of the arts in our jingoistic and  dangerously  confused society can afford to ignore Joseph Horowitz's courageous,  necessary,  and for the most part irrefutable cultural case history."  --Robert Craft,  New  York Review of Books