Vaughan Williams in Context (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108493321)

Challenging residual doubts about Vaughan Williams's role and significance within twentieth-century music and culture, this book places and explores his life and music in their broad musical, cultural, social, and political contexts. Chapters by scholars from a range of disciplines re-evaluate the composer's life and career within a world marked by both rapid change and refigured traditions. Building on scholarship that has established Vaughan Williams as aesthetically and politically progressive, the book furthers a revisionist perspective by broadening understandings of the nature of his responses to the twentieth century. This portrait of a modern composer emerges not merely by focusing on under-represented interests and pursuits, but also by contextualizing those activities that have been misrepresented as conservative or backward-looking.

Author: Julian Onderdonk
ISBN-10: 1108493327
ISBN-13: 9781108493321
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/04/2024
Pages: 342
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.38lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d