Politics of musical identity: selected essays

Essays on how music shapes who we think we are, covering nationality, class, race and gender, across Europe and the US from the 1860s to the 1950s.

Annegret Fauser follows Wagner, Bizet (in an American incarnation), Lili and Nadia Boulanger, William Grant Still and Aaron Copland, plus performers from Wanda Landowska to Marilyn Monroe. The settings range from the opera house and the concert hall to the salon. Three of the essays are in English here for the first time.

Fauser is a cultural musicologist and Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Music. Published 2015 in Ashgate's Contemporary Thinkers on Critical Musicology series.