Confronting the National in the Musical Past

<p>This significant volume moves music-historical research in the direction of deconstructing the national grand narratives in music history of challenging the national paradigm in methodology and thinking anew about cultural traffic cultural transfer and cosmopolitanism in the musical past. The chapters of this book confront or subject to some kind of critique assumptions about the importance of the national in the musical past. The emphasis therefore is not so much on how national culture has been constructed or how national cultural institutions have influenced musical production but rather on the way the national has been challenged by musical practices or audience reception.</p>