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LITERATURE MUSIC AND COSMOPOLITANISM - ROBERT F...

This book focuses on the twin arts of literature and music  supporting the notion that
cosmopolitanism is the natural condition of all the arts  and that all culture - without
exception - is migrant culture. It draws on examples ranging from the first to the twenty-first
centuries AD  on locations as remote as Alexandria and Australia  on writers as different as
Virgil and V.S.Naipaul  Arnold and Achebe  and on musicians as diverse as Bach and Bartok 
Purcell and Steve Reich. Across thirteen chapters  the study explores the interpenetration of
all forms of human expression  the fallacy of 'national' traditions and limiting conceptions of
regional character. The result is an exploration of artistic and intellectual endeavour that is
particularly welcome in the current political climate  encouraging us to view history in ways
informed by our contemporary demographic and cultural concerns. Taken either as a series of
interrelated case studies  or else as an evolving and sequential argument  this book is vital
reading for scholars of music  literature  and cultural and social history.

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