During the past two decades, there has emerged a growing need to reconsider the objects, axioms and perspectives of writing music history. A certain suspicion t
Contributors in this edited collection argue that the radical view of the ‘impossibility of history’, as well as the unavoidable ideology of any history, ar
In recent years classical music has become a test case for debates over the future of culture. As times have changed, the value traditionally placed on this mus
Jean Sibelius's Violin Concerto is the story of Sibelius as performer and composer, of violin performing traditions, of histories of musical transmission, and o
This significant volume moves music-historical research in the direction of deconstructing the national grand narratives in music history, of challenging the na