Sounds of Liberty: Music, Radicalism and Reform in the Anglophone World, 17901914
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Sounds of Liberty: Music, Radicalism and Reform in the Anglophone World, 17901914
By (Author) Kate Bowan
By (author) Mr. Paul A. Pickering
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press
10th August 2017
10th August 2017
United Kingdom
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Hardback
392
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
Description
Focussing on radicals and reformers this book explores the role of music in transmitting political culture across the Anglophone world over time and distance. It brings to light the importance of music in the lived experience of politics of those who composed, performed and consumed it. It provides an opportunity to hear history as it happened. -- .
Author Bio
Kate Bowan is Lecturer in the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at the Australian National University
Paul Pickering is Dean of the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the Australian National University
