Europe, Empire, and Spectacle in Nineteenth-Century British Music

By Rachel Cowgill

This volume illuminates musical connections between Britain and the continent of Europe, and Britain and its Empire. The seldom-recognized vitality of musical theatre and other kinds of spectacle in Britain itself, and also the flourishing concert life of the period, indicates a means of defining tradition and identity within nineteenth-century British musical culture. The volume benefits not only from new archival research, but also from fresh musicological approaches and interdisciplinary methods that recognize the integral role of music within a wider culture.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754652084
• ISBN13: 9780754652083
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"