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The War on Music: Reclaiming the Twentieth Century

by John Mauceri

A prominent conductor explores how aesthetic criteria masked the political goals of countries during the three great wars of the past century This book offers a major reassessment of classical music in the twentieth century. John Mauceri argues that the history of music during this span was shaped by three major wars of that century: World War I, World War I

Publisher

Yale University Press

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

224

ISBN

9780300233704