Violin Culture in Britain, 1870-1930: Music-Making, Society, and the Popularity of Stringed Instruments

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Interweaving a social history of string playing with a collective biography of its participants, this book identifies and maps the rapid nationwide development of activities around the violin family in Britain from the 1870s to about 1930. Highlighting the spread of string playing among thousands of people previously excluded from taking up a stringed instrument, it shows how an infrastructure for violin culture coalesced through an expanding violin...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1108842879

ISBN13:9781108842877

Release Date:December 2024

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:320 Pages

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