Examining innovations in audience behaviour, musical ensembles and mass-music movements, this book provides insight into how musical performances contributed to emerging ideas about class and national identity. Offering a fresh reading of bestselling fictional works of the day, Weliver draws upon crowd theory, climate theory, ethnology, science, music reviews and books by professional musicians to demonstrate how these discourses were mutually constitutive. This interdisciplinary undertaking will interest those working in the fields of English literature, musicology, social history and...
Examining innovations in audience behaviour, musical ensembles and mass-music movements, this book provides insight into how musical performances cont...
How was music depicted in and mediated through Romantic and Victorian poetry? That is the question which this volume of essays explores in order to achieve a better understanding of the place of music and its significance in 19th-century British culture.
How was music depicted in and mediated through Romantic and Victorian poetry? That is the question which this volume of essays explores in order to ac...
