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Music and Victorian Liberalism\n\nComposing the Liberal Subject\n\nExamines the interaction between music and liberal discourses in Victorian Britain, revealing the close interdependence of political and aesthetic practices.\n\nSarah Collins (Edited by)\n\n9781108480055 (SKU 3261246), Cambridge University Press\n\nHardback, published 6 June 2019\n\n266 pages\n25.3 x 18 x 1.6 cm, 0.71 kg\n\n'This book is a most welcome contribution to the renewed interest in liberalism and music culture. It reveals that Victorian liberal values were shaped by aesthetic debates in which the acts of performing and listening to music played an important role. The essays offer an absorbing illustration of the various tensions between music as recreation and music as a means of control, examining the role of human agency and the endeavour to experience life as an individual liberal subject.' Derek B. Scott, University of Leeds\n\nThe discourse of Victorian liberalism has long been explored by scholars of l]