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English Musical Renaissance, 1840-1940 (Music and Society)
English Musical Renaissance 18401940 - Music and Society Author:Meirion Hughes, Robert Stradling This controversial study isolates and identifies the intellectual, social, and political assumptions which surrounded English music in the early-20th century. The authors deconstruct the established meanings of music in this period, arguing that music was not just for the elite, but it had come to represent a stronghold of national values, refle... more »cting the reassuring "Englishness" of middle-class life as well.« less