This volume explores the way in which composers, performers, and critics shaped individual and collective identities in music from Europe and the United States

This volume brings together for the first time book chapters, articles and position pieces from the debates on music and identity, which seek to answer classic

Music plays an important role in all our lives, and is a channel through which we can express emotions, thoughts, political statements, and social relationships

For several centuries Cape Town has accommodated a great variety of musical genres which have usually been associated with specific population groups living in

How are national identities constructed and articulated through music? Popular music has long been associated with political dissent, and the nation state has c