Music and Victorian Liberalism - Composing the Liberal Subject

Examines the interaction between music and liberal discourses in Victorian Britain, revealing the close interdependence of political and aesthetic practices.

About the author

Sarah Collins is a Senior Lecturer in musicology at the University of Western Australia. In 2017, she was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at Durham University. Collins is the author of Lateness and Modernism (Cambridge, forthcoming) and The Aesthetic Life of Cyril Scott (2013). Her work has appeared in journals including the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Twentieth-Century Music, Music & Letters and Musical Quarterly.

Product details

• Assisted by: Sarah Collins (Editor), Collins Sarah (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.08.2024
• EAN: 9781108703161
• ISBN: 978-1-108-70316-1
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 244 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 467 g
• Illustrations: 11 b/w illus. 19 music examples, Raster,schwarz-weiss, Notenbeigaben, Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history; MUSIC / History & Criticism, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Romanticism, Music reviews & criticism, 1837–1901 (Victorian period), Music reviews and criticism, Romantic Music (C 1830 To C 1900), Art music, orchestral and formal music