Sounds of Liberty: Music, Radicalism and Reform in the Anglophone World, 1790-1914

by Kate Bowan, Paul Pickering, Paul A. Pickering

Throughout the long nineteenth-century the sounds of liberty resonated across the Anglophone world. Focusing on radicals and reformers committed to the struggle for a better future, this book explores the role of music in the transmission of political culture over time and distance. Following in the footsteps of relentlessly travelling activists - women and men - it brings to light the importance of music making in the lived experience of politics...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719082749
• ISBN13: 9780719082740
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.3"