The importance of nineteenth-century writing about culture has long been accepted by scholars, yet so far as music criticism is concerned, Victorian England has
This controversial study isolates and identifies the intellectual, social, and political assumptions which surrounded English music in the early-20th century. T
This book is a critical edition of the autobiography and selected musical criticism of Herbert Thompson (1856–1945) who was chief music critic at The Yorkshir
This book provides insight into how musical performances contributed to emerging ideas about class and national identity. Offering a fresh reading of bestsellin