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The English musical renaissance, 1840-1940 : constructing a national music / Meirion Hughes and Robert Stradling.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML286.4 .H84 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hughes, Meirion, 1949-
- Series:
- Music and society (Series)
- Music and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--England--19th century--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Music--England--20th century--History and criticism.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 330 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2001.
- Summary:
- 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, reflecting the reassuring "Englishness" of middle-class life as well.
- Contents:
- Part I The history and politics of Renaissance 1
- 1 Renaissance and reformation (1840-94) 3
- 2 A troubled inheritance (1895-1914) 52
- 3 War, post-war, pre-war, more war (1914-40) 83
- Part II Aspects of cultural formation 113
- 4 Being beastly to the Hun 115
- 5 Crusading for a national music 164
- 6 Slaying the false prophets 215
- 7 Becoming transfigured 251
- Postlude 290.
- Notes:
- Rev. ed. of: The English musical Renaissance, 1860-1940 / Robert Stradling and Meirion Hughes, 1993.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [298]-317) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0719058295
- 0719058309
- OCLC:
- 47443946
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