As the field of Cultural History grows in prominence in the academic world, an understanding of the history of culture has become vital to scholars across disci

As the field of Cultural History grows in prominence in the academic world, an understanding of the history of culture has become vital to scholars across disci

This volume demonstrates a new approach to cultural history, as it now being practiced by both historians and musicologists, and the field's quest to grasp the

Rarely studied in their own right, writings about music are often viewed as merely supplemental to understanding music itself. Yet in the nineteenth century, sc

Most historians rely principally on written sources. Yet there are other traces of the past available to historians: the material things that people have chosen