Subscribers to the New York Philharmonic, 1842–Present - Incite at Columbia University
Subscribers to the New York Philharmonic, 1842–Present
- Timeframe 2012–2015
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Principal Investigators
- Shamus Khan Columbia University
- Fabien Accominotti London School of Economics
- Barbara Haws New York Philharmonic
- Partner New York Philharmonic
- Funded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Learn More archives.nyphil.org
These new institutions helped transform the elite of the city into a “class” with a shared sense of self, which particularly revolved around cultural dispositions. However, these institutions were also used within class to differentiate between the “old elite”, who dominated these institutions, and the “new elite”, who had arrived at their station by success in business as opposed to lineage.
The Philharmonic subscriber data covers 140 years of these machinations, and their transcription and digitization allows for a range of studies of how social status has been maintained and manipulated in different periods of the city’s history.
Related Works
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open website
Fabien Accominotti, Shamus R. Khan, Adam Storer, "How Cultural Capital Emerged in Gilded Age America: Musical Purification and Cross-Class Inclusion at the New York Philharmonic", American Journal of Sociology, May 1, 2018
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open website
Jennifer Maloney, "Philharmonic Unveils Trove Online", The Wall Street Journal, January 27, 2013
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