This controversial study isolates and identifies the intellectual, social, and political assumptions which surrounded English music in the early-20th century. T

The importance of nineteenth-century writing about culture has long been accepted by scholars, yet so far as music criticism is concerned, Victorian England has

Music criticism in England underwent profound change from the 1880s to the 1920s. It gave rise to ‘New criticism’ that aimed to be rational, impartial and i

Imaginative analytical and critical work on British music of the early twentieth century has been hindered by perceptions of the repertory as insular in its ref

Music in the Women's Institute has become stereotyped by the ritualistic singing of Jerusalem at monthly meetings. Indeed, Jerusalem has had an important role w