| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 40.1

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 40.1 | The History Cooperative

*Making Music in Los Angeles: Transforming the Popular*. By Catherine Parsons Smith. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. xiv + 376 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)
Making Music in Los Angeles examines the role of music and music making in Los Angeles between the late-1880s and the start of World War II. Challenging the view of Los Angeles as a musical vacuum in that era, Parsons Smith shows that public music making was a prevalent form of self-expression and communication in L. A. well before the rise of commercial mass culture in the 1920s.	1
Parsons Smith focuses on the organization of European-based concert and opera music, an "extensive web of listeners, patrons, teachers, students, and entrepreneurs, as well as performers and composers" (p. 2). Discussing pivotal events, organizations, and individuals, she traces the transformation of this music from a popular activity into elite entertainment.	2
Part I, "Music for the 'People,'" covers the years 1887–1905. The author describes the visit of the National Opera Company, and in subsequent chapters explores the wide range of participation in the culture of music making: the life of working musicians, the gendered boundaries between professional and amateur musicians, and the struggle between competing impresarios to define concert music as an accessible popular art or as an exclusive commercial art.	. . .

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