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The Triumph Of Music By Tim Blanning

Posted at 11:27AM Tuesday 30 Dec 2008

The Triumph of Music
ISBN: 9781846141782

In The Triumph of Music, Cambridge historian Tim Blanning describes the story of western music with confidence, sweeping from the question of how and when composers began to write for posterity, rather than for more ephemeral purposes, to the consequences for jazz of the death of John Coltrane, and the place of mass market popular music in the social changes of our own time. He never loses touch with the seriousness of his mission yet juggles his sources and his observations in a dazzling and high speed display. It's a formidable achievement.

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