Vaughan Williams in Context

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108493327
• ISBN13: 9781108493321
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"