Two crucial moments in the formation and disintegration of musical modernity and the musical canon occurred at the turn of the seventeenth and the first half of

The complex relationship between myths and music is here investigated.

This first definitive reference resource to take a broad interdisciplinary approach to the nexus between music and the social and behavioral sciences examines h

This volume explores the role of music as a source of inspiration and provocation for modernist writers. In its consideration of modernist literature within a b

Are images and spectacles fundamental mediators of power relationships in the West? This book draws upon the language of cultural studies to investigate a conte