Meirion Hughes

Gebundenes Buch

The English Musical Renaissance and the Press 1850-1914

Watchmen of Music

Beschreibung

The second half of the nineteenth-century witnessed a significant revival of interest in English music. Meirion Hughes argues that this 'English Musical Renaissance' could not have happened without the pivotal support of British music journalists who championed the idea of a national music.

Autor

Meirion Hughes, a freelance historian, co-authored (with R.A. Stradling) The English Musical Renaissance 1860-1940: Construction and Deconstruction (1993), a volume which has appeared in a revised edition as The English Musical Renaissance 1840-1940: Constructing a National Music (2001). He contributed essays on Elgar to Music and the Politics of Culture (1989), on Rossini to Conflict and Coexistence (1997), and has written and presented several broadcasts for BBC Radio 3.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 561g
• ISBN-13: 9780754605881
• ISBN-10: 0754605884
• Artikelnr.: 47770476